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mrbear

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Registered: 2020-04-09

Posts: 38

Can I safely remove flatpak without breaking gnome?

So, I have been using Gnome with Arch for the last 3 months and I'm loving it! Just until recently I thought all the packages installed on my system were from the official repos or AUR, but it turns out that some of them were installed from flatpak - which is kinda weird because I'm pretty sure I didn't install flatpak. I would like to get rid of flatpack, but I'm not sure if this would break my Gnome in any well. The following packages are the ones installed with flatpack:

Freedesktop Platform	org.freedesktop.Platform	18.08.39	18.08	flathub	system
default	org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default		19.08	flathub	system
default	org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default		19.08	gnome-nightly	user
default	org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default		20.08beta	gnome-nightly	user
Intel	org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel		18.08	flathub	system
Intel	org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel		19.08	flathub	system
Intel	org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel		19.08	gnome-nightly	user
Intel	org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel		20.08beta	gnome-nightly	user
html5-codecs	org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs		18.08	flathub	system
openh264	org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264		2.0	flathub	system
openh264	org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264	2.1.0	2.0	gnome-nightly	user
GNOME Application Platform version 3.36	org.gnome.Platform		3.36	flathub	system
GNOME Application Platform version master	org.gnome.Platform		master	gnome-nightly	user
GNOME Software Development Kit version master	org.gnome.Sdk		master	gnome-nightly	user
Adwaita dark GTK theme	org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Adwaita-dark		3.22	flathub	system
Adwaita theme	org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita		5.14	flathub	system
KDE Application Platform	org.kde.Platform		5.14	flathub	system
QGnomePlatform	org.kde.PlatformTheme.QGnomePlatform		5.14	flathub	system
QGnomePlatform-decoration	org.kde.WaylandDecoration.QGnomePlatform-decoration		5.14	flathub	system

I'm wondering why do I have this bunch of things installed if I didn't install them myself. Right now I just want to remove flatpack and use pacman (forever <3), but when I try, it says that I can't because malcontent is using flatpack - Is there a way to know what malcontent is using exactly? And maybe remove that dep and install it again using pacman?

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Can I safely remove flatpak without breaking gnome?

You probably installed it with e.g. gnome-software.

Nothing from the pacman repositories requires any flatpak app to work. Some packages might require the pacman package "flatpak", but only because they directly interact with the flatpak program itself.

"malcontent" appears to be parental control software, which needs flatpak installed because it *links* to flatpak. Optionally, "malcontent" can filter flatpak-installed apps. malcontent is also a non-optional dependency of gnome-software.

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finoderi

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Registered: 2020-06-12

Posts: 76

Re: Can I safely remove flatpak without breaking gnome?

$ pacman -Qi malcontent

Last edited by finoderi (2020-06-27 05:51:24)