Failed to install a flatpak with extra data: No such file or directory

[Robin Lee]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 9:25 PM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2018-09-15 at 07:37 +0800, Robin Lee wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to update the flatpak for WPS office.
> >
> > The current manifest json:
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/KLxZPndPrWy5eCWPvTqSsg
> >
> > But when I tried to install the flatpak. It finally failed with
> > error: Failed to install com.wps.WPS/x86_64/stable: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > Full output of 'flatpak -v --user install temprepo com.wps.WPS -y':
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/aW4f5EPBZKzBng~55w-RWA
> >
> > It is not clear what file is expected at this step of installation.
> > The 'apply_extra'
> > script was successfully run.
>
> I believe those are the errors:
> flatpak install: Not exporting file com.wps.WPS-wps-template.desktop of unsupported type.
> flatpak install: Not exporting file com.wps.WPS-wpp-template.desktop of unsupported type.
> flatpak install: Not exporting file com.wps.WPS-et-template.desktop of unsupported type.
> flatpak install: Non-prefixed filename appurl.desktop in app com.wps.WPS, removing.
I clean up all the warnings, and the final failure is also gone.
>
> I believe that you need to check what desktop files get created, and
> make sure that there's only a single .desktop file with a name that
> matches the package name, eg. com.wps.WPS.desktop.
This is not true for this package. It successfully provides three
desktop entries.
>
> I think this .desktop file also needs to be in the original package
> (and icons) for the manifest to be accepted in flathub, as otherwise it
> would be missing from the details pages.
>