[SOLVED] Update for flatpak on Mageia 8?

[linuxbrad]

Hello,

I use flatpak to maintain certain applications on my Mageia 8 set-up. The last little while I have been seeing the following warning messages when I run an update on flatpak:

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Updating flatpak...
Looking for updates…
Info: org.freedesktop.Sdk//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version

The last time this happened I was on Mageia 7 and it appeared to be corrected by an update to the flatpak software. Is there an update planned for flatpak? When will we see it?

Thanks,

Brad

[morgano]

I believe it tries to tell you to ask the developer of the *application* to update to use a newer runtime...?

[sturmvogel]

In this case you can fiind out which app is using the runtime:

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flatpak list --app-runtime=RUNTIME

Replace RUNTIME with the appropriate tag (eg: org.freedesktop.Sdk)

[linuxbrad]

Hi,

This is what I get:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak list --app-runtime=org.freedesktop.Sdk
Name            Application ID       Version      Branch      Installation
GNU Emacs       org.gnu.emacs        27.2         stable      system
[###@linux ~]$ flatpak list --app-runtime=org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel
[###@linux ~]$ flatpak list --app-runtime=org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default


Is my install of Emacs at issue?

Thanks,

Brad

[doktor5000]

You may want to check if those older runtimes will be removed (without emacs itself) by

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flatpak uninstall --unused

[linuxbrad]

Thanks for the advice, doktor5000! This is what I got when I ran that command:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak uninstall --unused


        ID                                         Branch          Op
 1. [-] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264          19.08           r

Uninstall complete.
[###@linux ~]$


However, when I run the update again, I still get the same warning messages:

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[####@linux ~]$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
Info: org.freedesktop.Sdk//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Nothing to do.
[###@linux ~]$

[doktor5000]

You would have to ask that upstream to the emacs flatpak maintainers, as they would need to switch to a newer runtime version.
Check https://github.com/flathub/org.gnu.emacs/issues

Only thing relevant I could find was the update to the 19.08 version which was already 2 years ago: https://github.com/flathub/org.gnu.emacs/issues/22

[linuxbrad]

I uninstalled Emacs from flatpak as Mageia 8 comes with 27.1 anyway. However, I still see the warnings:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
Info: org.freedesktop.Sdk//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Info: org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//19.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The Freedesktop SDK 19.08 runtime is no longer supported as of September 1, 2021. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported version
Nothing to do.
###@linux ~]$


[linuxbrad]

I also did a couple of other flatpak queries:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak list --app-runtime=org.freedesktop.Sdk
[###@linux ~]$ flatpak uninstall --unused
Nothing unused to uninstall
[###@linux ~]$

[linuxbrad]

I figured it out! I ran a "list" command on flatpak and found that a bunch of old runtimes were sitting in the flatpak container:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak list
Name                       Application ID                             Version        Branch       Installation
Discord                    com.discordapp.Discord                     0.0.16         stable       system
LBRY                       io.lbry.lbry-app                           0.51.2         stable       system
Freedesktop Platform       org.freedesktop.Platform                   20.08.15       20.08        system
Freedesktop Platform       org.freedesktop.Platform                   21.08.4        21.08        system
default                    org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                       19.08        system
Mesa                       org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default        21.1.7         20.08        system
Mesa                       org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default        21.2.2         21.08        system
Intel                      org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel                      19.08        system
Intel                      org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel                      20.08        system
Intel                      org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel                      21.08        system
openh264                   org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264          2.1.0          2.0          system
Freedesktop SDK            org.freedesktop.Sdk                        19.08.15       19.08        system
Freedesktop SDK            org.freedesktop.Sdk                        20.08.15       20.08        system
Freedesktop SDK            org.freedesktop.Sdk                        21.08.4        21.08        system
Signal Desktop             org.signal.Signal                          5.23.1         stable       system


I was able to uninstall the 19.08 version of the problematic runtimes as follows:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak uninstall org.fre
org.freedesktop.Platform              org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264     org.freedesktop.Sdk
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default   org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 
[###@linux ~]$ flatpak uninstall org.freedesktop.Sdk//19.08


        ID                                            Branch          Op
 1. [-] org.freedesktop.Sdk                           19.08           r
 2. [-] org.freedesktop.Sdk.Locale                    19.08           r
 3. [-] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           19.08           r
 4. [-] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel          19.08           r

Uninstall complete.
[###@linux ~]$


Based on my previous query returning no entries:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak list --app-runtime=org.freedesktop.Sdk

I knew I could safely uninstall at least the 19.08 version.

Now, when I run the update command on flatpak I no longer get the warning messages:

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[###@linux ~]$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
Nothing to do.
[###@linux ~]$


Thanks for all the help, everyone!

[isadora]

Please, don't forget to mark the topic [SOLVED].
You can do so, by editing the subject/title in the first message in this topic.
Write [SOLVED] to the left of subject/title, thanks ahead.

[linuxbrad]

Thank you for the reminder!

I have done as instructed.

Thanks again to everyone for the help troubleshooting the issue.