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#283 kinoite: kdeconnect no longer available
Closed: Won't fix by siosm. Opened by whitfieldts.

Closed: Won't fix
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2 days ago I clicked on the "Get KDEconnect" from my desktop menu and it opened Discover and installed KDEconnect.
1 hour after that I proceeded to do the same on 3 other kinoite computers (on the same network), except Discover reported "Could not open appstream://org.kde.kdeconnect because it was not found in any available software repositories."
After waiting a few days and trying again, I decided to uninstall it from the first computer so I could install it globally with rpm-ostree instead; except the first computer can no longer uninstall it. When I try to uninstall it, Discover once again reports, "Could not open appstream://org.kde.kdeconnect because it was not found in any available software repositories."

What is the recommended path here?

I found kdeconnect in my rpm database. I suppose I can remove it from there.
I am new to this kinoite/silverblue thing, but I am a bit curious about the fact that the install was allowed.
The rpm lists files in:
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/libexec
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/dbus-1/services

All of these places seem to allow write by root. I suppose none of these are considered operating system directories?

kde-connect is now part of Kinoite by default: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/279. Not sure how you managed to install it via Discover. Any Flatpak version would only partially work and won't support all features.

On Kinoite, everything in /usr is part of the image and should not be manually modified.
Edited by siosm

Closing as we don't support installing kdeconnect in any other way. We should remove it from the nightly remote to avoid the confusion.

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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