[GNC] flatpak 4.4 reports anomaly

Elmar etschme at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 11:19:53 EST 2021


The menu item cals GC via "/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable 
--arch=x86_64 --command=gnucash --file-forwarding org.gnucash.GnuCash @@ 
%f @@"

And this is the first (and only) flatpak I have ever installed.  I 
installed Flatseal so GC could find my data files as well, of course.

On 2/11/21 9:16 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> In that case the first thing to do is to figure out how exactly your system
> calls the flatpak version of gnucash. There are quite a few subtle details
> that may affect this.
>
> You can examine the menu entry to figure out what command is being run
> exactly.
>
> Out of curiosity have you been removing installed flatpaks manually by
> deleting associated directories ? The error suggests flatpak believes a
> version of gnucash (master) is installed on your system while it appears not
> to.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> Op donderdag 11 februari 2021 13:58:29 CET schreef Elmar:
>> Trying "flatpak run org.GnuCash.gnucash --logto=$HOME/gnucash.trace"
>>
>> does not invoke the program and instead gives me
>>
>> "error: app/org.GnuCash.gnucash/x86_64/master not installed"
>>
>> Which is very odd, since it runs from the menu system fine.
>>
>> - Elmar



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