Package: flatpak Version: 0.8.0-1 Severity: important Hello,
Thanks for packaging flatpak at its latest. I've tried exploring flatpak, as a means to install proprietary software that I sometimes use. In that quest, I started with flatpak upstream's instrcutions at: http://flatpak.org/apps.html My interest is in trying out Skype. When trying to install it on Debian, I get: rrs@learner:/tmp$ flatpak install --from https://s3.amazonaws.com/alexlarsson/skype-repo/skype.flatpakref Installing: com.skype.Client/x86_64/alpha Required runtime for com.skype.Client/x86_64/alpha (org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.4) is not installed, searching... The required runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.4 was not found in a configured remote. error: The Application com.skype.Client/x86_64/alpha requires the runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.4 which is not installed 2017-01-03 / 18:26:50 ♒♒♒ ☹ => 1 Which doesn't give any hint on what needs to be done. In traditional package managers, I'd do a search for the missing pacakge. In this case, I'm left clueless. I looked for a Debian specific README, assuming there may be any Debian specifc quirk, but did not find any such document. rrs@learner:/tmp$ flatpak remote-list com.skype.Client-origin 2017-01-03 / 18:37:21 ♒♒♒ ☺ This doesn't give much pointers. rrs@learner:/tmp$ flatpak remote-ls Usage: flatpak remote-ls [OPTION...] REMOTE - Show available runtimes and applications Help Options: -h, --help Show help options Application Options: --user Work on user installations --system Work on system-wide installations (default) --installation Work on a specific system-wide installation -d, --show-details Show arches and branches --runtime Show only runtimes --app Show only apps --updates Show only those where updates are available --arch=ARCH Limit to this arch (* for all) -v, --verbose Print debug information during command processing --ostree-verbose Print OSTree debug information during command processing error: REMOTE must be specified 2017-01-03 / 18:37:24 ♒♒♒ ☹ => 1 This seems better. But what remote ? Should this remote be listed somewhere ? Is it a global independent remote ? Or a Debian specific remote ? PS: In the problem space that these tools are trying to solve, in my opinion AppImage is the simplest one, which is self-contained and does not have any dependency solving. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages flatpak depends on: ii bubblewrap 0.1.5-1 ii fuse 2.9.7-1 ii libarchive13 3.2.1-5 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libfuse2 2.9.7-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.2.2-1 ii libostree-1-1 2016.15-2 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-17 ii libseccomp2 2.3.1-2.1 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1 Versions of packages flatpak recommends: ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-1 ii gtk-update-icon-cache 3.22.5-1 ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.15-1 ii libpam-systemd 232-8 ii shared-mime-info 1.7-1 flatpak suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
