Hi all,
My system has started throwing warnings about being down to 800 MB of free space on my /root partition, and it seems that the disk hog is this folder:
/var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
....with almost 8 GB of data.
The objects folder is filled with hundreds of other folders (named with just 2 alphanumeric digits), and they all seem to be filled with random graphical objects.
Do they belong to one particular app? Or a range of apps?
Even the oldest modified date on one of these subfolders is just a week ago.
Can I delete anything without penalty? Will I break anything?
I did a google search, but didn't manage to find anything particularly illuminating about what is generating all these files.
Thanks in advance.
What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
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What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
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ajgringo619
Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
If
flatpak list returns anything, then you have some installed in that directory.-
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Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
Tried "sudo flatpak repair" but it did not remove anything from the objects folder, nor recover any disk space.
As for list, this is what I have apparently:
As for list, this is what I have apparently:
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Discord com.discordapp.Discord 0.0.15 stable system
OBS Studio com.obsproject.Studio 27.0.1 stable system
Scribus net.scribus.Scribus 1.5.7 stable system
hugin net.sourceforge.Hugin 2020.0.0 stable system
Audacity org.audacityteam.Audacity 3.0.2 stable system
Codecs org.audacityteam.Audacity.Codecs stable system
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 20.08.14 20.08 system
default org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 19.08 system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 21.1.4 20.08 system
nvidia-455-38 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-455-38 1.4 system
nvidia-460-32-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-32-03 1.4 system
nvidia-460-39 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-39 1.4 system
nvidia-460-56 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-56 1.4 system
nvidia-460-73-01 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-73-01 1.4 system
nvidia-460-80 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-80 1.4 system
nvidia-460-91-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-91-03 1.4 system
FFmpeg extension org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg 1.6 system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.0 system
GNU Image Manipulation Program org.gimp.GIMP 2.10.24 stable system
GIMP User Manual org.gimp.GIMP.Manual 2.10 2.10 system
GNOME Application Platform version 3.36 org.gnome.Platform 3.36 system
GNOME Application Platform version 3.38 org.gnome.Platform 3.38 system
GNOME Application Platform version 40 org.gnome.Platform 40 system
Mint-Y Gtk Theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y 3.22 system
KDE Application Platform version master org.kde.Platform 5.11 system
KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 5.15 system
PulseAudio Volume Control org.pulseaudio.pavucontrol 4.0 stable system
VLC org.videolan.VLC 3.0.16 stable system
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Moonstone Man
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Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
That means that the all the data in the objects directory is needed for the flatpaks that you've listed. If this were my problem, I'd go through the list and work out what flatpaks I could live without or no longer want then remove them. Next, I would look for PPAs that provided up to date versions of the native applications. For example, I have OBS, GIMP, Audacity, nvidia, pavucontrol and vlc, which are all in your list, but mine are native.
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ajgringo619
Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
Along with @Kadaitcha Man's suggestions, you don't need all of those nvidia* packages except for nvidia-460-91-03. For whatever reason, this continues to be a problem with flatpak (keeping drivers around that aren't being used). One other thing to try is
Now, for the future, you need to take a serious look at your partition layout. If you decide to continue using flatpaks and your /home partition has lots of space, you might be better off moving your flatpaks there. You will need to reinstall them all, unfortunately. Let me know if you're interested and I'll walk you through it.
flatpak uninstall --unused, just in case there's an unneeded runtime taking up space.Now, for the future, you need to take a serious look at your partition layout. If you decide to continue using flatpaks and your /home partition has lots of space, you might be better off moving your flatpaks there. You will need to reinstall them all, unfortunately. Let me know if you're interested and I'll walk you through it.
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Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
Along with @Kadaitcha Man's and @ajgringo619 suggestions, I recommend using the Scribus AppImage. I started using this AppImage when 1.5.1 was release - it has been rock-solid, and I use it almost exclusively. I also have Scribus 1.4.6 installed on my system for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Scribus - the AppImage has never interfered with the installed version, and vice versa.
https://www.scribus.net/downloads/unstable-branch/
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Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
Thanks guys!
I've done a bit of cleanup and recovered some space.
If I need more assistance, I'll sing out!
Cheers.
I've done a bit of cleanup and recovered some space.
If I need more assistance, I'll sing out!
Cheers.
Re: What can I remove from /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
FWIW, my '/var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects' contains 12.7 GB, and I plan to leave it alone./var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects
....with almost 8 GB of data.
flatpak list returns this:
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$ flatpak list
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com.github.hluk.copyq/x86_64/stable system,current
com.itopia.client/x86_64/stable system,current
io.atom.Atom/x86_64/stable system,current
net.codeindustry.MasterPDFEditor/x86_64/stable system,current
org.avidemux.Avidemux/x86_64/stable system,current
org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync/x86_64/stable system,current
org.gnome.Genius/x86_64/stable system,current
org.ksnip.ksnip/x86_64/stable system,current
org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/x86_64/stable system,current
org.opencpn.OpenCPN/x86_64/stable system,current
org.qgis.qgis/x86_64/lts system,current
org.remmina.Remmina/x86_64/stable system,current
us.zoom.Zoom/x86_64/stable system,current
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/19.08 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/20.08 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-430-26/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-430-50/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-440-100/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-440-59/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-450-102-04/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-450-119-03/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-450-66/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-450-80-02/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-460-80/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full/x86_64/20.08 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg/x86_64/1.6 system,runtime,eol=The Freedesktop 1.6 runtime is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported runtime.
org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs/x86_64/18.08 system,runtime,eol=The Freedesktop SDK 18.08 runtime is no longer supported as of 31th August 2020. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264/x86_64/2.0 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.6 system,runtime,eol=The Freedesktop 1.6 runtime is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported runtime.
org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/18.08 system,runtime,eol=The Freedesktop SDK 18.08 runtime is no longer supported as of 31th August 2020. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/19.08 system,runtime
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08 system,runtime
org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.34 system,runtime,eol=The GNOME 3.34 runtime is no longer supported as of 14th August 2020. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.38 system,runtime
org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/40 system,runtime
org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y/x86_64/3.22 system,runtime
org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.12 system,runtime
org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.14 system,runtime
org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 system,runtime