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Difference between the two Flatpak backends available in apt for Plasma Discover? Is there a problem from Installing both?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 524 / 3 Years ago, sun, november 21, 2021, 4:20:19

So basically I wanted to add Flatpak support to Discover and I came up with these two different Apt commands

sudo apt install plasma-discover-flatpak-backend



sudo apt install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak

They appear to be two different packages with very similar name
I decided to install both just to be sure, but I don't know if that's going to cause an issue down the line or something

Could anyone explain the difference between the two and if its OK if I installed them both?

(And if installing them both is an issue which one should I keep?)

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answered 3 Years ago lishrag · Accepted Answer

TL;DR on modern systems 21.04, 21.10 and upcoming 22.04 LTS you have to use plasma-discover-backend-flatpak package, on older 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS systems it will be installed by transitional package named plasma-discover-flatpak-backend as dependency.

According to the search on packages.ubuntu.com both two packages exist with the following relations and properties:

plasma-discover-flatpak-backend exists only in 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS.

In 18.04 LTS is provides Flatpak functionality to Discover.
In 20.04 LTS it depends on plasma-discover-backend-flatpak, the latter provides Flatpak functionality to Discover. For 20.04 LTS plasma-discover-flatpak-backend is marked as transitional package.

plasma-discover-backend-flatpak exists in all modern Ubuntu releases like 20.04 LTS, 21.04, 21.10 and upcoming 22.04 LTS.

This package provides Flatpak functionality to Discover.