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  1. Bug #1754864
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1754864

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Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen) wrote : Re: Flatpak runtime extensions are not installed when using GNOME Software on Ubuntu

@osomon, hey o/ :-)

GNOME Web looks like it has been archived on Flathub https://github.com/flathub/org.gnome.Epiphany and removed from the store for now. I believe this was due to security issues, which will hopefully be solved with the new freedesktop runtime.

Eolie, looks like there are other people stating that the languages aren't working, so might just be that the translations aren't available for the app. (probably discuss with upstream)

Yes runtime extensions are not installed automatically with gnome software 3.28. Eg themes, extra drivers, codecs etc. This works with the CLI as it had extra logic to deal with automatically installing such extensions. Now with newer versions of libflatpak this logic is included as a "FlatpakTransaction API", GNOME Software 3.30 has a new flatpak plugin and will make use of this - resolving the issue for cosmic onwards.

However, there was also code submitted upstream which added this logic to the old GNOME Software flatpak plugin to install these extensions automatically - resolving the issue for 3.28 users. If this is approved and lands into a 3.28 point release, I'd be happy to help go through the SRU process to include such a change :-) (ping me on IRC if you want to discuss anything).