Hello,
I’m very new to Linux and Manjaro so I’m sorry if this is a rookie question. I installed Slack from Pamac, which only comes as a Flatpak. It installed correctly, but created two entries in my application menu, and when I launch it, it starts twice (and eats twice as much RAM).
Tried to reboot, uninstall and re install from the Konsole, doesn’t seem to be working. Install is fresh, I’m running 510 kernel and plasma 5.22.4
Didn’t quite find the solution to this problem after a quick search online.
Anybody help ? Greatly appreciated
How to provide good information
and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…
An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.
It also appears to do it with Skype. These are the only two faltpaks I’ve installed, but I need them for work. I understand that they are also available in the AUR, but I’ve been told that as a beginner it was best to avoid the AUR as much as I can until I get a better understanding of what I’m doing.
What can I do next ? Can I provide more information ?
Flatpaks and snaps come with their own disadvantages, so:
file a bug upstream with the package maintainer
OR
activate the AUR, delete all snaps and flatpaks and install from the AUR and then the application runs natively and any bugs can be taken up with the developer of the software instead of the flatpak maintainer.
In the meantime I also tried to download several packages from the AUR but it is hard to see which ones are maintained and which aren’t. Is there anyway of judging if a package is still relevant prior to downloading and testing it ?
Oh and also, many of them end with -git. What is the difference between those and the “regular ones” ?