Hello, I installed the Flatpak Firefox a while ago and I have noticed that it does not do any upgrading to the newer versions because “Updates are disabled by your system administrator”. My environment is the Crostini Linux on a Chromebook. Is there some way to “enable” my updates so I can keep up with the current version of Firefox? I tried to reinstall the latest version but I just get a message that it’s already installed.
Thanks
Did you try:
flatpak update firefox
flatpak-update — Update an application or runtime
Or is your question about enabling in app updates?
Thank you for responding. I tried your suggestion of “flatpak update firefox” but got an error back of “Invalid id firefox: Names must contain at least 2 periods”. So obviously it wants additional path information for firefox which I don’t know. I also looked at your link and tried to read through it but my eyes glazed over because it was way over my head. I’ve only been dabbling with Linux for a couple years (after 35 years of DOS, Novell and Windows). I like learning new things but I find this pretty hard.
The idea of just enabling app updates sounds appealing if that’s possible. I don’t see why the default seems to be to have that disabled.
That’s because flatpak update firefox is invalid. It expect an app-id, like org.mozilla.firefox. But if flatpak upate didn’t offer it, then I doubt it will be different.
Now if you machine using an ARM processor instead of an Intel-compatible one (you didn’t say), then it’s unlikely to work as there is no Flatpak version of Firefox for anything else than x86_64…
(sadly, and that’s not something the Flathub maintainer can fix)
Thanks for your feedback. My machine is a Chromebook with an Intel processor. I tried you suggestion of org.mozilla.firefox and viola, it worked!! Once you know the solution, it usually doesn’t seem so difficult. I just wish I could have found this information on Flathub’s web site so I didn’t have to bother you folks. Thanks again for your help!
Glad it’s sorted out.
I am new to flatpak too. I forgot app-id needs to be used.
If you want to see all the apps installed through flatpak and their app-id’s you can use this command:
flatpak list
“flatpak list”, very nice! Thank you very much. 
I guess this topic is complete and should be closed.
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Flatpak provide interface to install Firefox .If needed Flatpak updation is neccesary.
It seems to me that if the flatpak developers wanted flatpak to go mainstream, make things easy for the new users. Why would new users want to take the time to adopt, yet a different way of doing things? How hard is it to change “flatpak update org.mozilla.firefox” to “flatpak update firefox”??? If it were that easy, I’d be on board in no time. I wouldn’t have to google how to update this and that or any other new way of doing things. Better yet, get a jump on things and make it so if I type update firefox in a linux terminal, your “flatpak” has everything setup.