On 12/10/2021 15:38, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 12/10/2021 09:53, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I usually use the net installer, but it's possible that I used the Workstation live to install F34 on this system. I noticed Thunderbird seemed to be a bit strange, not integrated well. For example, I couldn't open pdf files normally. I couldn't pick the pdf viewer, only an option to use the default system opener or save the file. I discovered what had happened when I tried to update it and dnf said it wasn't installed. It took a while, but eventually I figured out that it was a flatpack. I would never intentionally install a flatpack, particularly when there's a perfectly good rpm available.
So my question is, how did Thunderbird get installed as a flatpack? Is that the default for the workstation install now?
When I opened Gnome Software, it gave me the initial welcome dialog, so I didn't use that to install it. I did use that to remove the flatpack and I could see that it would be very easy to accidentally install the flatpack version instead of the rpm one.
Not sure if this is a valid data point. I installed F35 Workstation from the Live Beta Image. There was no thunderbird installed.
If I click on Activities and type thunderbird it shows up in "Software" and I suppose if I click on it it would get installed.
From where? I can't tell.
Also, my F34 Workstation has no thunderbird, but I can;t recall how I installed it.
Oh, I went a bit further.
I clicked on "Software" and there are 2 entries for thunderbird .
One says "Source: registry.fedoraproject.org" the other "Source: fedoraproject.org"
One has a 4-star rating the other a 3-star rating.
I'm guessing one is from the repo and the other a flatpack. Based on you comments, 3-star is probably the flatpak.
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