Post by @fenrasulfr@lemmy.world

2026-11-06 19:38 UTC

I woyld love a bit of help solving a flatpak problem. Hello, Recently Discover stopped being able to do updates because it gets stuck on looking for flatpak updates. So I went to the terminal and used the flatpak update command and there it also gets stuck looking for updates. So I tried doing it with Sudo and than it started working. So now I am “stuck” using the terminal everytime I want to update. I tried flatpak repair and dnf reinstall flatpak but nothing changed. Upgraded to from Fedora 44 to 45 in the vein hope that would solve but I am out of troubleshooting steps. Would anyone know how to solve this? Thank you to anyone willing to give me the time of day. Fen

Replies (2)

@Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-11-06 21:15

I’ve been having the same issues with an arch-derived distro and it also gets stuck, leading me to believe that the issue’s on flatpack’s distribution end. (I use shelly for my updating, and it works fine for pacman and AURs, but at least for the past day it’s hung up on flatpacks. I also tried running “flatpack update” in bash with no results.) Because of that I don’t think there’s any solution other than manual installation until Flatpack solves the distribution issue.

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@HouseWolf@pawb.social 2026-11-06 22:54

I also had issues in the past using Discover for Flatpak I ended up just using the terminal from then on. I also just tried updating my flatpaks on Artix just now and didn’t run into an issue. Do the updates fail or do they just take a while? I know Fedora had an issue a while back with them using their own repos over flathubs offical ones. You can see how to get the official repo here

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