Hi thanks reporting this.

With latest all packages installed from repos with Mageia Cauldron,
I really can't reproduce this.

Spotify installs well and fins well. Even from Konsole, Menu from Plasma and from Discovery... All runs well.

So with which ISO did you install Cauldron?

CC: (none) => ouaurelien

(In reply to Aurelien Oudelet from comment #1)
> Hi thanks reporting this.
> 
> With latest all packages installed from repos with Mageia Cauldron,
> I really can't reproduce this.
> 
> Spotify installs well and fins well. Even from Konsole, Menu from Plasma and
> from Discovery... All runs well.
> 
> So with which ISO did you install Cauldron?

Hello,

The latest was installedusing Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

It also happens with Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

I install flatpak using urpmi flatpak

flatpak repo as well as apps are installed as root.

Regards
Ezequiel Partida

@Aurelien : thanks for running through all this for real.

Comment 0 is enigmatic re com.spotify.Client.
- Installed from terminal, it did not run [unspecified]
- Re-installed from Discover, it did not run [unspecified]
- Re-installed from terminal, it did not run; details & remedy given.
Can we take it that the first two failures were for the same reason?

This is a bit late, but have you Ezequiel any record of what the post-install file permissions were in & below:
 /home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak
since you corrected them?

And the same for Aurelien? To compare the original permissions, which A did not need to fiddle, but E did. If they are different - why?

Accepting the need to install flatpak itself as root:
Ezequiel says above: "flatpak repo as well as apps are installed as root", but in comment 0, all the commands shown are as the normal user.

Aurelien: can you say what you did as what user in comment 1 ?

Source RPM: (none) => flatpak
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #3)
> @Aurelien : thanks for running through all this for real.
> 
> Comment 0 is enigmatic re com.spotify.Client.
> - Installed from terminal, it did not run [unspecified]
> - Re-installed from Discover, it did not run [unspecified]
> - Re-installed from terminal, it did not run; details & remedy given.
> Can we take it that the first two failures were for the same reason?
> 
> This is a bit late, but have you Ezequiel any record of what the
> post-install file permissions were in & below:
>  /home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak
> since you corrected them?

No. flatpak installs in /var/lib/flatpak/app/ and $HOME/.var/app contains user's config/cache.

This directory is 1000:1000 drxw------ and so does $HOME/.local/share/flatpak.
 
> And the same for Aurelien? To compare the original permissions, which A did
> not need to fiddle, but E did. If they are different - why?
> 
> Accepting the need to install flatpak itself as root:
> Ezequiel says above: "flatpak repo as well as apps are installed as root",
> but in comment 0, all the commands shown are as the normal user.
> 
> Aurelien: can you say what you did as what user in comment 1 ?

All flatpak commands are done as user in CLI and Discover does the same.
You can install as root also. All is OK on my Cauldron system.

Source RPM: flatpak => flatpak-1.8.1-1.mga8.x86_64

@Ezequiel, do you have a wrong umask? Mine is 0022.

I did a test and plan to do another one tomorrow.

step 1. I installed mageia and install flatpak as root as normal.

step 2/ I later installed the flathub reposity as root using:

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

step 3. I later installed the application as root using:

flatpak install flathub com.spotify.Client

Once installed it does not run tom mageia menu, if I run it from konsole as normal user I get: 

$ flatpak run com.spotify.Client
error: While opening repository /home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak/repo: opening repo: opendir(/home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak/repo): Permission denied

I think is when I install step 3 as root. If I do it as normal user I don't have problems

I will test this tomorrow.

Regards

(In reply to Ezequiel Partida from comment #6)
> $ flatpak run com.spotify.Client
> error: While opening repository
> /home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak/repo: opening repo:
> opendir(/home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak/repo): Permission denied

Looks likely to have been caused by using "su" to become root instead of "su -".
See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

(In reply to Ezequiel Partida from comment #6)
> I did a test and plan to do another one tomorrow.
> 
> step 1. I installed mageia and install flatpak as root as normal.
> 
> step 2/ I later installed the flathub reposity as root using:
> 
> $ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub
> https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
> 
> step 3. I later installed the application as root using:
> 
> flatpak install flathub com.spotify.Client
> 
> Once installed it does not run tom mageia menu, if I run it from konsole as
> normal user I get: 
> 
> $ flatpak run com.spotify.Client
> error: While opening repository
> /home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak/repo: opening repo:
> opendir(/home/ezequielpartida/.local/share/flatpak/repo): Permission denied
> 
> I think is when I install step 3 as root. If I do it as normal user I don't
> have problems
> 
> I will test this tomorrow.
> 
> Regards

flatpak applications should NEVER be installed as root user.
The infrastructure is to add applications as user, using ever Plasma-discover or gnome-software.
Also, at command line, it must be used as user.

Tagging this INVALID.

Seems a permission error in user directory.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED