Bug 458255

Summary: Cannot install Yakuake from the link on the KDE page for it.
Product: [Applications] yakuake Reporter: Keith Brown <spamtrap>
Component: generalAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: nate, nicolas.fella
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/9250d0dcb1a78a4797318cc2f8840962db94e690 Version Fixed In: 5.24.7
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Screenshot from Discovery in Kubuntu 22.04

Description Keith Brown 2022-08-24 14:53:25 UTC 
SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click the "Install to Linux" link on the yakuake page

OBSERVED RESULT
Receive an error that yakuake cannot be installed due to being not found.

EXPECTED RESULT
Yakuake installs via KDE Discovery

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 15.5.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Have tried on multiple systems, same results. I think it is mostly due to there not being a version of yakuake on flathub and similar repos that the KDE org makes use of officially.
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2022-08-24 15:40:28 UTC 
It is correct that Yakuake is not available from Flathub, packaging terminal apps as Flatpak is somewhat complex

However, Discover should offer you to install it from your distribution, assuming it is packaged there. What distribution is that and does it have a package for Yakuake?
Comment 2 Keith Brown 2022-08-24 16:50:09 UTC 
Created attachment 151557 [details]
Screenshot from Discovery in Kubuntu 22.04
Comment 3 Keith Brown 2022-08-24 17:14:59 UTC 
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1)
> It is correct that Yakuake is not available from Flathub, packaging terminal
> apps as Flatpak is somewhat complex
> 
> However, Discover should offer you to install it from your distribution,
> assuming it is packaged there. What distribution is that and does it have a
> package for Yakuake?

Tried first on my Steam Deck using Arch-Based SteamOS 3.0. After that failed, I tried on my laptop running Kubuntu 22.04. I know the Ubuntu repos include yakuake, as I've had it on my laptop for a year now. It reports an error about being unable to open appstream://org.kde.yakuake because it was not found in any repository. I can see that being a thing on the steamdeck, as that relies on the flathub repo, but for ubuntu, that caught me as odd.
Comment 4 Nicolas Fella 2022-08-25 15:15:28 UTC 
I see what the problem is. The appstream id of Yakuake is org.kde.yakuake.desktop, therefore the correct URL would be appstream://org.kde.yakuake.desktop

Using that URL Discover properly finds Yakuake on KUbuntu 22.04. That suggests that the website just produces the wrong URL

Newer versions of Discover seem to handles this better though, i.e. appstream://org.kde.yakuake work, even though it is not technically correct
Comment 6 Nicolas Fella 2022-08-25 15:35:04 UTC 
The second should have been https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/313