[solved] Flatpak, can it be removed

[kuifje09]

For some reason I have flatpak on my mint 19.2, but never asked for it.

If I am right then it is asking for pasword to install sometihing ?
While I don't like when working, I need to install or update anything, ( could be in the field... )
the question is now, can it harmless be removed?

Flatpak at this moment does not much ?

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When I nor remove flatpak with synaptic, will I lose my desktop too ?

How do I safely remove flatpak ? Can it be removed ?

[rene]

Can it be removed ?

Sure, but you may wish to just remove the currently installed content instead:

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flatpak remove --all

If you insist on removing flatpak itself (but note, even if you do, do above first in any case),

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sudo apt-get purge --autoremove flatpak libflatpak0

And, no, it shouldn't be asking (administrator) users for passwords...

[kuifje09]

Thanks, I will try to remove it.

And yes, everytime I log in, it does ask in a few minutes, for a passwd within a popup. ( only once )
And in the details it says it is about flatpak to do something.

Still have a question, Flatpak, is it userbased, or systembased.
I mean will all users get the popup for the same software or only one of them.
And is it indeed just to get the latest software-updates for some application.

The only thing I know it started to popup since last update about a week ago or so...

[rene]

Indeed Flatpak aims to check for updates to installed flatpak'ed applications. It's configured as a regular desktop Startup Application as found under Preferences -> Startup Applications.

From where you could also disable only that part --- but it still shouldn't be asking for a password in the first place if you are an administrator user and can't really imagine why it would. Perhaps sudo chown -R $(whoami): ~ and logging out and back in helps. Juts quickly checked, and even a standard user does get the Flatpak updater in their Startup Applications.

[kuifje09]

Alright, So far it remains a question why after login I got a popup from flatpak, but, I removed it,
and after 2 reboots and logging in, I get no more popup's and everything looks normal ( until now.. )

So if it is not realy necesary, I wil keep it off my system.

Thanks for the help.

[DAMIEN1307]

I get no more popup's and everything looks normal ( until now.. )

If your still getting popups try these codes below, just copy and paste to avoid typos...DAMIEN

Remove Flatpak remotes

To show remote sources:

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flatpak remotes

If it says "Not Found", etc. etc. You should be good to go...If it is still showing "sources", proceed with the next code:

Delete the sources as in this example:

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flatpak remote-delete flathub

[rene]

So if it is not realy necesary, I wil keep it off my system.

Let me then just add to above instructions for removing Flatpak, i.e.,

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$ flatpak remove --all
$ sudo apt-get purge --autoremove flatpak libflatpak0

(where the first needs sudo as well if the invoking user is not an administrator) instructions for reinstalling it:

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$ sudo apt-get install flatpak libflatpak0 gir1.2-flatpak-1.0
$ sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo