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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
