On 2026-04-24 10:07, Steve Litt via Talk wrote:
D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk said on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:55:29 -0400 (EDT)
To update flatpaks: $ sudo flatpak update
but this won't work through SSH. You have to start DBUS first.
Eeeeu, DBUS, get it offa me!
What... Afraid of spiders also ;)
And you cannot do it in a separate sudo because the environment will be different between the two. (The error messages are ugly.)
$ ssh other-system $ sudo -i # export $(dbus-launch) # sudo flatpak update
flatpak update seems a lot slower than normal package updates.
Can you put it all in one shellscript and just run the shellscript over ssh?
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