Re: Frescobaldi+LilyPond flatpak package now available

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 6 nov 2020 alle 15:13, J Martin Rushton 
<martinrushton56@btinternet.com> ha scritto:
> Hi Federico,
>
> Update 2.  I noticed that there is a /root/.var directory so created 
> $HOME/.var, still no luck.

Yes, this was created when you launched Frescobaldi as root.
~/.var (or /root/.var in case of root) is where configuration and app 
files are stored.


 I then tried flatpack list as myself and had errors for the following 
directories.  The permissions were 750, I changed them to 755:
>

I have 755 by default on Fedora:

$ ls -ld /var/lib/flatpak
drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4096  6 nov 09.53 /var/lib/flatpak


> /var/lib/flatpak/app
> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi
> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/x86_64
> /var/lib/flatpak/runtime
> /var/lib/flatpak/runtime/*
> /var/lib/flatpak/runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64
>
> I could then run flatpak list, but the only output was a blank line. 
> When I tried to run Frescibaldi I then saw "error: 
> app/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/x86_64/stable not installed" which of 
> course was not tue.  I set the permissions to 755 and then got 
> "error: Error opening file 
> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/x86_64/stable/54532dddeb5db92fc66c20b9ca4147e9d76b366587e8d5d573ea2d8dd74fa8f5/metadata: 
> Permission denied"
>
> The long hex directory must be a temporary and doesn't exist.
>
> Following the Troubleshooting section of the flatpak docs link you 
> gave me, I ran:
>
> # flatpak repair
> Verifying flathub:runtime/org.kde.Platform.Locale/x86_64/5.15...
> Verifying 
> flathub:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/20.08...
> Verifying flathub:runtime/org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita/x86_64/5.15...
> Verifying 
> flathub:runtime/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi.Locale/x86_64/stable...
> Verifying flathub:appstream2/x86_64...
> Verifying flathub:runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15...
> Verifying flathub:app/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/x86_64/stable...
> Verifying 
> flathub:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264/x86_64/2.0...
> Verifying 
> flathub:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel/x86_64/20.08...
> Pruning objects
> # flatpak permission-reset org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi
>
> but I'm still getting a repeat of the last error message.

I would try wiping everything and start again from scratch being sure 
to run every command as normal user and not root.