Bug 387917 - installation of flatpaks on a live system does not work
Summary: installation of flatpaks on a live system does not work
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: Flatpak Backend (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.11.4
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Aleix Pol
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Reported: 2017-12-15 00:53 UTC by Peter Eszlari
Modified: 2018-01-29 16:19 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Eszlari 2017-12-15 00:53:38 UTC 
When I try to install a flatpak via a flatpakref file from flathub on a live system e.g. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/, I get the following error:

"fsetxattr(user.ostreemeta): Operation not supported"

This also happens when I try it on the command line. Only when I add the --user option, installing works.

So should discover fall back to this mode or just inform the user that installation on a live system is not supported?

Maybe this is too much of an edge case, but it could also be useful for testing.
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2018-01-29 16:19:26 UTC 
This is an issue in either flatpak or the distribution.
Please report there: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/