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Haha, I break snap a lot less than the others, and it took a bit to figure out the differences. Appimages are annoying af. Flatpaks are my favourite when there isn't a good old .deb. I recently broke Flatpak though so it's on my naughty list. Snap still chugging along for some reason, I just wish the permissions weren't so crazy strict (Nextcloud).
Speaking of all this, I realised I've accidentally installed some things twice. Is there a good way to list all the different package managers together to see what is duplicated?
How do you break a flatpak?
I once uninstalled a flatpak and it rendered another installed flatpak unlaunchable. Not even the repair function would fix it. Ended up having to use timeshift to rollback. Not sure if that was the fault of Flatpak or that one specific app but it was pretty frustrating.
Asking the real questions here.
I broke Gnome and now I have Flatpaks that don't launch. I don't want to reinstall so I am slowly fixing things.
You can try
flatpak repair
. Or it could be a leftover .desktop file for that app.You can check if that app is still installed with
flatpak list
Yeah that isn't the problem haha. I have deleted something gnome is not happy about. This has been a few days of tinkering. I think I actually just might have fixed it. Fingers crossed, anyway.
How exactly are appimages annoying? I think they are awesome tbh
AppImage is a package format, not a package manager. Same with tar.
So, I would say the primary complaint should be a lack of package management.
https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM
I want a centralised app manage, not 50. I'd probably stick them in a folder and forget them if not for Gear Lever.
https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM
Oh perfect, they added this to topgrade.
https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade/pull/423
But yes, they hyper trigger my ocd because I cannot manage it all in one place and they just float around as a seperate entity. I just discovered Bauh too which can manage them. The problem there lies that you have to choose one manager now to manage them all and they don't all just detect them like a flatpak manager. They're too manual. The more that these things are separated the more time I'll spend fucking with them and that's the last thing I need. I need them to be all in one place and standardised to stop my bad habits. It's too much extra shit. I get why they're good, it's just not for someone that is not a dev thay actually needs to do other work.
what
Is topgrade used to update all the package managers at once? how many stuff are you using that you need that???
Different users need different things. Not everyone can run a bare bones Arch setup. I'd use it anyway even if I didn't have a lot of updates. It's the centralisation that's important. It even updates Docker containers and windows. I have several devices I can just automate now. It's a set and forget.