'kill' Not an Option for flatpak Command (Ubuntu 18.04)

JakobDev · Dec 26, 2022

flatpak kill works on my Manjaro System. It is also listed under --help. Maybe your distro has a outdated version of Flatpak.

Barry DC · Dec 26, 2022

Thanks for confirming what ought to be there, but the install was done with Flatpak’s PPA per the instructions on their website, which is why I’m baffled, when the site clearly shows a “flatpak kill” command/option.

Only hting I can think is to uninstall/reinstall Flatpak and see what happens.

CORRECTION
Double checked

“With older Ubuntu versions, the official Flatpak PPA is the recommended way to install Flatpak …”

Ubuntu Quick Setup

I saw the PPA installation method on another article about Flatpak and I just concentrated on cut/pasting the commands.

Removing and redoing with a plain apt install and see what pops up.

Barry DC · Dec 26, 2022

Reinstalled using apt install and kill is still not not an option for the flatpak command.

Opened an issue on their github.

Kukuh Syafaat · Dec 27, 2022

github.com/flatpak/flatpak

'Kill' No Longer an Option for the flatpak Command?

opened 08:51PM - 26 Dec 22 UTC

closed 05:43PM - 27 Dec 22 UTC

haleba-hotmail

invalid

I was experimenting with using Flatpak versus apt and installed Audacity, which …locked up. I could not close the app and Ubuntu did not see Audacity as an application I couldn't kill it. Multiple sources mention a flatpak command "kill" option, but the installed flatpak command does **_not_** list "kill" as an option `flatpak --help Usage: flatpak [OPTION…] COMMAND Builtin Commands: Manage installed apps and runtimes install Install an application or runtime update Update an installed application or runtime uninstall Uninstall an installed application or runtime list List installed apps and/or runtimes info Show info for installed app or runtime config Configure flatpak repair Repair flatpak installation create-usb Put apps and/or runtimes onto removable media Finding applications and runtimes search Search for remote apps/runtimes Running applications run Run an application override Override permissions for an application make-current Specify default version to run enter Enter the namespace of a running application ps Enumerate running applications Manage file access document-export Grant an application access to a specific file document-unexport Revoke access to a specific file document-info Show information about a specific file document-list List exported files Manage dynamic permissions permission-remove Remove item from permission store permission-list List permissions permission-show Show app permissions permission-reset Reset app permissions Manage remote repositories remotes List all configured remotes remote-add Add a new remote repository (by URL) remote-modify Modify properties of a configured remote remote-delete Delete a configured remote remote-ls List contents of a configured remote remote-info Show information about a remote app or runtime Build applications build-init Initialize a directory for building build Run a build command inside the build dir build-finish Finish a build dir for export build-export Export a build dir to a repository build-bundle Create a bundle file from a ref in a local repository build-import-bundle Import a bundle file build-sign Sign an application or runtime build-update-repo Update the summary file in a repository build-commit-from Create new commit based on existing ref repo Print information about a repo Help Options: -h, --help Show help options Application Options: --version Print version information and exit --default-arch Print default arch and exit --supported-arches Print supported arches and exit --gl-drivers Print active gl drivers and exit -v, --verbose Print debug information during command processing, -vv for more detail --ostree-verbose Print OSTree debug information during command processing` >flatpak --version Flatpak 1.0.9 >lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic

It looks outdated, kill available since 1.1.0

Martin · Dec 27, 2022

I doesn’t look like you’ve installed the version from the PPA:
Version 1.0.9 is from the Ubuntu repositories (Ubuntu – Details of package flatpak in bionic-updates).
The PPA should provide 1.14.1 (Flatpak stable versions : “Flatpak” team).

It seems your PPA wasn’t correctly setup. I’m not using a Debian based distribution, therefore I can’t help with any specifics. But it seems you can check the packages with apt show flatpak or apt-cache show flatpak. This should indicate which version gets installed from which repository.

Barry DC · Dec 28, 2022

That did the trick

flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.14.1

Thanks