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Background

I got these messages when updating:

Info: org.gnome.Platform is end-of-life, with reason: GNOME 3.24 runtime is no longer supported as of 11th January 2019. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform. Info: org.gnome.Platform.Locale is end-of-life, with reason: GNOME 3.24 runtime is no longer supported as of 11th January 2019. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.

As this is a runtime, I now want to find out, which app(s) is/are actually using this outdated runtime, so I can report it as a bug there.

Basically, I just want to do what the message told me… 😉

Question

So, given a name of a runtime (org.gnome.Platform) and a version of a runtime (3.24) how can I list all apps that use this runtime in this specific version?

Also, please answer the simpler case without a specific version, so how can I list all apps that use a specific runtime (org.gnome.Platform)?

Tries so far

  • flatpak info --show-runtime <appid> shows the runtime of a specific app… But well… I can hardly do this manually for each app.
  • flatpak list --app shows all apps, but no runtime information. Even flatpak list --app --columns=all does not show something specific.
  • flatpak list --runtime show all runtimes including the version (nice), but not, which apps actually make use of it.
  • I can use flatpak info org.gnome.Platform//3.24 to show information about the runtime, but I have still no idea what app uses it.
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You can use flatpak list --app with the --app-runtime option:

flatpak list --app --app-runtime org.gnome.Platform//3.30

If you uninstall those apps to clean-up some space, remember to also:

flatpak uninstall --unused
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flatpak list --app --columns=application,runtime
  • --app argument is used to list only the apps installed.
  • --columns argument is used to decide how to order the columns that are showing in terminal, in this case is application and runtime

console returns:

Application ID Runtime com.discordapp.Discord org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 com.getpostman.Postman org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 com.github.artemanufrij.playmymusic org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/40 com.github.fabiocolacio.marker org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41 com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/40 com.github.phase1geo.minder org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 com.slack.Slack org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 com.spotify.Client org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 de.haeckerfelix.Shortwave org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/40 info.smplayer.SMPlayer org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 io.atom.Atom org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08 io.github.OpenToonz org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 org.geany.Geany org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/40 org.gnome.GTG org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/40 org.inkscape.Inkscape org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41 org.kde.kdenlive org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 org.kde.okular org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 org.libreoffice.LibreOffice org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 org.mozilla.firefox org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08 org.phoenicis.playonlinux org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08 org.synfig.SynfigStudio org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.38 org.telegram.desktop org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 org.videolan.VLC org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 us.zoom.Zoom org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 work.openpaper.Paperwork org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/40

you have many options for ordering the columns to display, examples:

  • --columns=name,size
  • --columns=name,version
  • --columns=name,branch
  • --columns=name,ref
  • --columns=name,latest
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I understand that this won't answer your specific question, but it just might solve your problem.

I was looking at the flatpak reference guide on ITSFOSS Blog, and I found the following command...

$ flatpak uninstall --unused

(I have a ton of flatpaks installed, and it took my slow i3 x131e Lenovo ThinkPad w/ 8gb ram and a spinning rust HDD about 5-10 minutes to run)

After that I did the command below again:

$ flatpak update

(no errors this time)

Even though I was having issues w/ Gnome and KDE(freedesktop) runtimes, the uninstall only appeared to uninstall a half dozen or so KDE runtimes, and a couple of versions of a GTK+ app(pulse-effects); but it did get rid of the errors for me.

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  • Thanks, that's indeed a nice tip, but really does not solve my problem. Because in my case, that old runtime was actually not unused, but in use by a flatpak… Commented May 25, 2019 at 11:01

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