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    wth, that was really annoying (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    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?

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    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 sudo like a normal package manager and would only have to enter the password once. But then he wouldn't be able to complain on Lemmy.

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    Remove --system repos and install them as --user. For me it defaults to --user

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

    Thats probably still not possible over ssh.