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.
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.
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?
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
sudolike a normal package manager and would only have to enter the password once. But then he wouldn’t be able to complain on Lemmy.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
Remove --system repos and install them as --user. For me it defaults to --user