Unable to install flatpak as 'user'

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Hi, I’m on Silverblue 31. I’m trying to install flatpak as normal user, without success. The same flatpak is OK to install without ‘user’ option. I’m trying following command:
flatpak install --user fedora com.transmissionbt.Transmission

I get “error: No remote refs found similar to ‘fedora'”. Why is this? Am I doing anything wrong?

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  • Does a repo exist at ~/.local/share/flatpak/?
  • Does a [remote "fedora"] config exist in ~/.local/share/flatpak/repo/config
    • If not you could try copying that section from the config at /var/lib/flatpak/repo/config
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Right, likely missing the remote config for your user. Compare flatpak remotes and flatpak remotes --user.

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Thank you both. Indeed, I did not have repo in my user local directory. I figured out that (sorry for not doing my homework :grimacing:). I added repo with,
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo --user
Same for fedora repo. Issue resolved.

Still, as a normal user, I would have liked that I only install repo once, not have a separate repo for user and system and be able to install using --user option.

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If you mostly want to install things as the user, you can remove the repos from the system install to avoid accidentally installing things there.

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Hi Ryan,
Thanks. As I am the only user (and trying on virtualbox) I guess it doesn’t mater much. I wanted to check the user install feature.