[GNC] Gnucash 3.7 - flatpak cannot recognize second internal HDD & USB Flashdrive

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 12 november 2021 15:37:46 CET schreef Frank H. Ellenberger:
> Am 09.11.21 um 11:57 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > I believe --system refers to which installation of the flatpak you want to
> > use and hence depends on how you installed the package. And it will only
> > be required if you have both a system-wide and a user-only gnucash
> > flatpak installed. Most users will have installed via their OS's
> > integrated package manager, which would install the flatpak system-wide.
> I think we have different 2 use cases:
> 1. "Normal" users where the distri does not offer a recent GnuCash. They
> should install from FlatHub ideally with their usually software
> management tool [--system, the default].
> 
> 2. Translators and bug reporters, who want verify their recently merged
> translation or a bugfix. They want to install a nightly from
> code.gnucash.orgy. According
> https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html#system-versus-user
> I would suggest to use the --user option here.
> 
> > As for sudo, isn't that required to be able to make changes to permissions
> > for a system installed flatpak ?
> 
> I have just tested: flatpak is smart enough to pop up an
> authentification dialog while running 'flatpak update'. So it is a
> matter of taste.
> It also runs first the --system update and then asks to continue with
> the --user update.
> 

Perhaps. I did try to run flatpak override and that refused to make system wide changes 
without sudo (on Fedora 34).

Geert