Background-Story: I did a “flatpak update” on a remote client and every package wants the PW for downloading and for installing again. I had to enter the password like 30 times or more.

  • SuperIce@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Flatpak uses polkit for permissions. System level flatpak updates are typically permitted without password by polkit but only for local users. For SSH, most flatpak operations require a password, so it’s a mess if you try to run an update on system level flatpaks without sudo, which solves OP’s problem. They could also move everything to a user level install, which IMO makes more sense for flatpaks than the default system level mode.