I’ve written a small bash script to help with updating various packages/dependencies on my machine (Pop!_OS) but it doesn’t seem to be working correctly for flatpak. If I run flatpak update in the terminal it will show that I have updates, but when running the script there aren’t any updates.

The Script:

#!/bin/bash

# Update package list
sudo apt update -y

# Upgrade the packages and dependencies
sudo apt upgrade -y

# Remove unnecessary packages and dependencies
sudo apt autoremove -y

# Clean package cache
sudo apt clean -y

# Update Flatpak
sudo flatpak update -y

# Update firmware
sudo fwupdmgr update -y

echo "All updates and upgrades have completed sucessfully!"

EDIT: Running flatpak update -y without sudo fixes the issue.

  • Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
    5·
    11 months ago

    There’s something valueable to learn here. Seems like flatpak installs packages per user, meaning when you do

    $sudo flatpak update

    it runs as the root user, which probably doesn’t have any packages installed.

    Kind of a weird concept if you used Windows for a long time before switching to linux, where running as admin still used the same user account just with elevated privileges iirc

    Edit: According to flathub running flatpak as root installs packages systemwide, otherwise they’re installed on a per user basis. You should still keep the multi user thing I mentioned in your mind if you’re used to windows