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    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Wed May 14 14:41:44 2025
    I was having trouble with "no space" messages on my other machine.
    Looking around, I saw /var/lib/flatpack was very large, so I uninstalled flatpak and deleted /var/lib/flatpack. When I reboted, I found my only
    window manager available was IceWM, I'd lost all my saved passwords and
    I couldn't find the equivalent of kmenuedit.
    How can I get Plasma back?
    --
    Grimble
    Registered Linux User #450547
    Machine 'Bach' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.88-desktop-3.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64


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  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Wed May 14 18:33:39 2025
    Grimble wrote:
    I was having trouble with "no space" messages on my other machine.
    Looking around, I saw /var/lib/flatpack was very large, so I uninstalled flatpak and deleted /var/lib/flatpack. When I reboted, I found my only window manager available was IceWM, I'd lost all my saved passwords and
    I couldn't find the equivalent of kmenuedit.
    How can I get Plasma back?

    This would be a good time to have a Timeshift backup.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Wed May 14 18:52:16 2025
    Grimble wrote:
    I was having trouble with "no space" messages on my other machine.
    Looking around, I saw /var/lib/flatpack was very large, so I
    uninstalled flatpak and deleted /var/lib/flatpack. When I reboted, I
    found my only window manager available was IceWM, I'd lost all my
    saved passwords and I couldn't find the equivalent of kmenuedit. How
    can I get Plasma back?

    Seen in the Mag wiki:

    One of the down-side of using Flatpak, the first time you install
    one of them, it will download a lot of dependencies and use quite a
    lot of space. Example: after installing only KiCAD (which is rather
    big) as Flatpak system wide, /var/lib/flatpak/ was 4GB.

    .... and seen in the 'dependency hell' experiences manual; sometimes
    removing some 'package' causes the removal of dependencies which belong
    to other things.



    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From kyuzo@2:250/1 to All on Thu May 15 07:40:18 2025
    Il 14/05/25 19:52, Mike Easter ha scritto:
    Grimble wrote:
    I was having trouble with "no space" messages on my other machine.
    Looking around, I saw /var/lib/flatpack was very large, so I
    uninstalled flatpak and deleted /var/lib/flatpack. When I reboted, I
    found my only window manager available was IceWM, I'd lost all my
    saved passwords and I couldn't find the equivalent of kmenuedit. How
    can I get Plasma back?

    Seen in the Mag wiki:

    One of the down-side of using Flatpak, the first time you install
    one of them, it will download a lot of dependencies and use quite a
    lot of space. Example: after installing only KiCAD (which is rather
    big) as Flatpak system wide, /var/lib/flatpak/ was 4GB.

    ... and seen in the 'dependency hell' experiences manual; sometimes
    removing some 'package' causes the removal of dependencies which belong
    to other things.



    It could be a solution installing Flatpack only locally, not consuming
    the / partition.

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  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Thu May 15 18:36:59 2025
    kyuzo wrote:
    It could be a solution installing Flatpack only locally, not consuming
    the / partition.

    How would the 'user' do that? That would have to be flatpak coding or a preferences/option feature availability.

    I'm just now reading that flatpak's design is like 'git for apps'. I
    didn't realize that.

    https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/under-the-hood.html

    But, I certainly agree that if you *could* that would be a good idea.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Fri May 16 17:18:12 2025
    On 14/05/2025 14:41, Grimble wrote:
    I was having trouble with "no space" messages on my other machine.
    Looking around, I saw /var/lib/flatpack was very large, so I uninstalled flatpak and deleted /var/lib/flatpack. When I reboted, I found my only window manager available was IceWM, I'd lost all my saved passwords and
    I couldn't find the equivalent of kmenuedit.
    How can I get Plasma back?
    Well, I've re-installed plasma, and the out-of space messages have
    stopped, so that's OK. I've forgotten what I installed that needed
    flatpak, but I'll be more careful in future.

    --
    Grimble
    Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.88-desktop-3.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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