Discover keeps nagging about Refresh of version freedesktop-skd-22.08.26, but always fails to update with the error: Aborted due to failure (Can’t remove org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/22.08, it is needed for: com.system76.Popsicle) System seems to perform OK as is, but I’m OCD enough that it bothers me that Discover constantly indicates there is a update available that it can’t install. Is there anything I can do about it?
That’s a flatpak, so it is unrelated to neon, or even Discover. You will need to look there for more information on why. The error from flatpal is saying that it cannot remove org.freedesktop.Platform which is required by some app called Popsicle.
I am going to guess you requested to uninstall some version of org.freedesktop.Platform at some point recently?
You’ll probably need to use the flatpak command to see things better.
Yes, that should be the case. Flatpaks are completely separate from the OS and ‘native’ packaging.
Thanks claydoh for pointing me in the right direction. I didn’t remember installing an app called “Popsicle”, but after a little research I discovered that it is a USB Image Writer that I probably wanted to try a while back.
“I am going to guess you requested to uninstall some version of
org.freedesktop.Platformat some point recently?”
No, but I’ve since learned that version of org.freedesktop.Platform said flatpak contains is end-of-life and needed updating.
So how did you end up dealing with this? Did you contact the Flatpak’s maintainer?
Been long enough now that I don’t remember exactly how I corrected the issue, but I think it was a few simple commands…sudo flatpak update
sudo flatpak update popsicle (or whatever package you're updating)
Thanks for the advice! Running sudo flatpak update and then erasing dotnet-sdk-8.0 (which conflicted with a Flatpak) with RPM allowed me to update all my packages smoothly.