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Flatpak system repo keeps getting re-enabled #270
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I have moved my Flatpak installation to my /home partition, using the user repo instead of the system repo. However, during some of the system updates, the system repo is re-enabled, which causes any new Flatpaks to be installed under /. Is there any way to permanently disable this "feature"?
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xenopeek commentedon Jan 8, 2020
This needs further troubleshooting to find out what is doing this. I suggest taking help for that from the support forums if you haven't already found a solution or workaround. If the root cause is found to be in a component maintained by Linux Mint this issue can be reopened.
mtwebster commentedon Jan 8, 2020
Mintinstall and the package system we use (in mint-common) are more or less hardcoded to use the system installation at the moment, to mimic behavior of the default package manager. It's probably getting re-enabled when the package cache is updated.
I'll take a look at making this a bit more flexible. The specific things that probably re-enables it is the
mintinstall-update-pkgcacheprogram, which is run periodically by mintupdate. As a workaround, if you were to not use mintinstall, you could edit this script to do nothing. Unfortunately there's not really much else to do for the moment.gm10 commentedon Jan 8, 2020
@mtwebster nah, it's only
mintinstall/debian/postinst
Line 38 in 9663877
Happy new year. ;)
JoeJoeTV commentedon Dec 12, 2023
It would be nice, if the possibility to change the location that mintinstall uses would be added, as flapaks are filling up my relatively small root partition, while I have lots of space on the home partition or on other drives.
github-actions commentedon Mar 8, 2026
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JoeJoeTV commentedon Apr 12, 2026
I still think this issue deserves attention. I think it is a useful feature to let the user choose where to install flatpaks to, since they do offer this flexibility in comparison to APT packages, especially when thinking about the sometimes much bigger size of flatpak packages.