Help locating source of install !!
Folks please bear with me here. My laptop has in the past gone from Fedora through Silverblue, Kinote and now Bazzite. Yesterday thanks to this kind group I used both rpm-ostree reset forrlowed by a rebase to ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-dx-nvidia:stable.
I now seem to have a stable system again. I need to get my act together to install & manage apps/packages more efficiently (or should i say correctly..so I am working my way through https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software) I had too many packages layered which was causing issues hence the need to reset & I THOUGHT I only used rpm-ostree & flatpak to install software BUT I have software installed (specifically Blender 4.2.2LTS & Firefox) and have no clue at all which method was used to install them.. Whats the best method to track this down ? No sign of them using sudo flatpak list.. Im stumped
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in addition, to make sure you don't have leftover .desktop files, you will also want to check out ~/.local/share/applications. blender and firefox might have created desktop entries, which can potentially conflict if you decide to install the flatpak versions
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flatpak is how you install most things
unless the flatpak is broken
or there is no flatpak
rpm-ostree status -v should show if you still have packages layered. if you ran rpm-ostree reset you shouldn't have anything layered anymoreafter a reboot of course
to track down Blender and Firefox, you can use one of KDE's built-in apps. i forgot the name, but you should be able to inspect the .desktop file and locate where the binary was installed
You are correct rpm-ostree status -v shows nothing layered
The binarys have been put in my home dir
then i'm pretty sure it was not "installed", but rather you just downloaded them and copy-pasted. i'm not sure where you obtained them from, but just deleting the binary and related directories (if present) should be enough
the website has a tar.gz
you can open dolphin, then press Ctrl+H on your keyboard to show hidden files and folders
i believe firefox creates a .mozilla folder in the home directory
so guessing it's there
Yep ......that would certainly fit with Blender thanks.
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in addition, to make sure you don't have leftover .desktop files, you will also want to check out ~/.local/share/applications. blender and firefox might have created desktop entries, which can potentially conflict if you decide to install the flatpak versions
You hero thank you, this appears to be exactly whats happned
oh that's KDE menu editor as i recall
it can inspect create & modify desktop files
but modifyomg the entry of a system or flatpak doesn't change the original it just makes a copy & edits that copy
in ~/.local/share/applications of course
but since the original is already there in this case
i think it would get modified