Background-Story: I did a "flatpak update" on a remote client and every package wants the PW for downloading and for installing again. I had to enter the password like 30 times or more.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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huh?
why would you need to enter a password to update flatpacks?
why would flatpack ask for your pw multiple times when every other package manager only needs to ask once?
Because he tried to update a system-wide flatpak install as a non-root user. Flatpak uses polkit for root permissions. Polkit is usually set up to allow non-root local users to update flatpak without a password, but not remote ones, hence having to continually enter the password for polit when using SSH. He could just run the update with
sudolike a normal package manager and would only have to enter the password once. But then he wouldn't be able to complain on Lemmy.Hm, next time when I run into a serious issue, I make a meme here and wait for the explanation.
Thx, next time I just use sudo.
For every sever install I've had, flatpak defaults to the system install which requires a password. You have to explicity pass the --user flag.
I'm not sure how to make it the default
Remove --system repos and install them as --user. For me it defaults to --user
Thats probably still not possible over ssh.