Any way to restore or fast reinstall an installed flatpak?

Robin Lee robinlee.sysu at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 11:23:25 UTC 2018


Yes, I am facing the exact case as you said.
Using install --reinstall does not recover some config file.
So, how can I recover it under this situation?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
> By the way, when you do something like this, make sure you replace the
> file you're editing, rather than edit it in place, because the files
> in ~/.local/share/flatpak/runtime/... are hardlinked to the ostree
> repo, so an in-place change will break the ostree repo.
>
> Most tools like e.g. editors do this, but some might not.
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Robin Lee <robinlee.sysu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski <b at bpiotrowski.pl> wrote:
>>> On 2018-04-02 18:53, Robin Lee wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I deleted and modified some files under
>>>> ~/.local/share/flatpak/runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.6/active/files/
>>>> .
>>>> Is there any special method to restore the original whole tree of an
>>>> installed flatpak?
>>>>
>>>> -robin
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>>>>
>>>
>>> flatpak install --reinstall org.freedesktop.Platform//1.6 should do that.
>> Thanks! I missed this since it is not in the man page (0.10.4).
>>>
>>> Bartłomiej
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