Hi, I followed this However, since I don’t like having two apps with the same GUI, I wanted to remove it. I ran the command ‘sudo apt autopurge gnome-software-plugin-flatpak’ and it executed successfully. However, it appears that the command has done nothing, since I can still open Flathub and it’s as if nothing happened.
What actually are you trying to achieve?
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak simply allows the App Center to support installing Flatpaks.
Installing the Flatpak plugin will also install a deb version of GNOME Software, resulting in two “Software” apps being installed at the same time on Ubuntu 20.04 to 23.04, and a single new “Software” app on Ubuntu 23.10 and newer.
All this means in practice is that when you select an app to install, you will be given choices as to whether to install the .deb version (Debian), the Snap version or the equivalent Flatpak version from a drop down menu. Simply select the version you want.
Well, yes. If you go to https://flathub.org/en-GB that will still occur as you don’t need to open the App store in order just to install Flatpaks. It’s just more convenient to do so.
You haven’t said which version of Linux you are using. Are you using Ubuntu for example (which also offers Snap Applications)?
In short, there is nothing wrong with your system.
As stated by @graham , your question is not clear @dolphinuser.
- Are you trying to only uninstall redundant applications installed via Flatpak?
- Or are you trying to get rid of anything related to Flatpak on your system? That would include apps installed via Flatpak, Flatpak itself, Flatpak related user folders, etc.
It seems that you referring to “Flathub” as specific programs (one or more) installed via “Flatpak”, while most people look at “FlatHub” as a repository of applications.
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