Updates via Discover fail to install packages

Zenurik

For some time now I cannot get Discover to update my system when there's a weekly sync. Some packages (mostly flatpaks) do update but it always fails without completing with the following error:

Failed to install package:
Could not update: Component.localName: 'ar' language of tag 'LocalName' is empty.

My system is set to Brazilian Portuguese btw.

System info:
Operating System: Solus 4.6
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.11.7-308.current (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

alfisya

This is a known issue. The workaround is available in that discussion. Cheers!

Zenurik

alfisya I tried the workaround some time ago and it worked, thanks! Sorry for not replying sooner

BuzzPCSOS

For me I have always fixed Discover by running this in terminal
sudo eopkg install --reinstall discover
Have not had to do this recently so must be improving.

zmaint

Flatpaks are horrendously slow and do not support parallel downloads. I think Discover tries to download updates in parallel, which essentially slows the updates to a trickle at best. According to the hive mind at Reddit, they say to use a VPN (I did, no difference) or to change your DNS provider (tried several, still crap download speeds).

I've also ran into Discover just simply not starting. As in it never launches. No processes hung, no errors, just doesn't start. Reboot, then it will work ok a couple times, then it just stops again. Can duplicate this with multiple machines. Been a long long long time since I used Discover last (way back with Kubuntu), but I do not remember it being this terrible.

brent

zmaint the longer I've had been in linux-world the more I am convinced that, for package management, nothing has beaten the terminal for speed and accuracy.

I have never used discover and never will and gnome-software is rough enough (editor's pick? what editor? unsourced comments and app star ratings, etc)...Solus' own SC beats the crap out of both them options but Solus will bury that like a dead dog in the backyard soon...and that's funeral I do not relish attending. you take the good with the bad. life.

Axios

brent Well one thing we can be sure of with solus is that something wont be sent to the
grave unless its replacement is working.

brent

Axios Well one thing we can be sure of with solus is that something wont be sent to the
grave unless its replacement is working.

🙂 🙂 The package manager info seems to vary so much I can't keep up with it.

What replacement? I thought Solus Software Center's Official Replacement was Discover and Gnome? Which means the superior app is being sent to its grave.

Unless? I remember DataDrake, when she was here, was working on SolBuild package management but I think with all the serpent and moss stuff that is project is gone.
Is there a new package manager between the Ikey Crew and Solus being tested/built?

I should not ask questions after working 13 hours...goodnight🙂

craigtoyoracer

brent Brent this is a good read for understanding the near future. 🙂

https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/12/23/serpent-os-enters-alpha/

Reading Alpha to the the present is really informative and should ease your mind that "moss" will be an improvement over all the other managers.

alfisya

Keep it on topic guys.This discussion was solved. Please create a new thread. Thank you.