Flathub won’t install anymore. It’s always worked in the past.
When I copy from flathub’s instructions (flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo) and paste the repo install code into terminal, I now get:
error: While opening repository /var/lib/flatpak/repo: opendir(objects): No such file or directory
Can anyone help me get this resolved?
Thank you much for help you can provide.
same problem in Leap 15.2 RC with flatpak 1.6.3.
Maybe related to this bug report?
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172316
You may consider upgrading to Tumbleweed. It uses the latest stable software versions and now works reliable. You need not upgrade every few days. Upgrading at your own pace works fine.
Erm, this is about Tumbleweed, isn’t it? 
The mentioned bug report was filed against Tumbleweed as well.
And it contains a workaround:
As per: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/gtvvv5/flathub_repo_link_broken/fsex6r3/
Removing /var/lib/flatpak/repo/ before trying to add a repo fixes the issue. When adding the repo, the necessary folders and files are created now.
I never worked around. Just did a copy and paste. Flatpak works indeed:
erlangen:~ # flatpak remotes
Name Options
flathub system
erlangen:~ # flatpak search firefox
Name Description Application ID Version Branch Remotes
Firefox Firefox Web Browser org.mozilla.firefox 76.0.1 stable flathub
erlangen:~ # flatpak install Firefox
Looking for matches…
Found similar ref(s) for ‘Firefox’ in remote ‘flathub’ (system).
Use this remote? [Y/n]:
Similar refs found for ‘Firefox’ in remote ‘flathub’ (system):
1) app/org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable
2) app/org.mozilla.Firefox.BaseApp/x86_64/stable
Which do you want to use (0 to abort)? [0-2]: 1
Required runtime for org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]:
org.mozilla.firefox permissions:
ipc network pcsc pulseaudio x11 devices file access [1] dbus access [2] system dbus access [3]
[1] xdg-download
[2] org.a11y.Bus, org.freedesktop.FileManager1, org.freedesktop.Notifications, org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver, org.gnome.SessionManager, org.gtk.vfs.*, org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.org.mozilla.firefox
[3] org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
ID Branch Op Remote Download
1. ✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 19.08 i flathub 84.6 MB / 85.1 MB
2. ✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale 19.08 i flathub 23.5 MB / 318.2 MB
3. ✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 19.08 i flathub 8.6 MB / 8.7 MB
4. ✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.0 i flathub 857.5 kB / 916.8 kB
5. ✓] org.freedesktop.Platform 19.08 i flathub 193.2 MB / 238.3 MB
6. ✓] org.mozilla.firefox.Locale stable i flathub 524.0 kB / 48.2 MB
7. ✓] org.mozilla.firefox stable i flathub 79.4 MB / 84.5 MB
Installation complete.
erlangen:~ # flatpak list
Name Application ID Version Branch Installation
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 19.08.10 19.08 system
default org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 19.08 system
Intel org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 19.08 system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.0 system
Firefox org.mozilla.firefox 76.0.1 stable system
erlangen:~ #
Well, AIUI the bug seems to be that flatpak doesn’t download the necessary files if the directory /var/lib/flatpak/repo/ exists (but is empty).
You probably already have those files from an earlier version that maybe didn’t have this bug or didn’t create the directory on installation.
I’m just guessing here though, I don’t use Tumbleweed so cannot check.
There obviously have been other people with that problem though, as the links to the bug report and reddit show.
Thank you very much for this hint!
Several months ago i did a new Tumbleweed installation and when i tried to add a flatpak package i ran into the problem described in #1. However i did not bother to look deeper into it.
Today i tried the workaround mentioned in the bugreport and it works for me!
Regards
susejunky