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?

I use nsenter for docker and podman
It may work here.
A docker example is "nsenter --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid --target $(docker inspect --format {{.State.Pid}} docker_proxy_1 )"

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