Bazaar is now the default app store in Bluefin

Folks you need to use the issue tracker: GitHub · Where software is built

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Apologies for the stupid question, but I’ve never really used GitHub - should we create a new issue or add to an existing one?

I see this one created by @antheas, should we update it with any issues we come across?
Bazzite: Switch to Bazaar for application store tracker #74

Thank you!

One issue per feature/bug is how you want to do it (so that it can scale out). I always search for duplicates but if you accidentally make one don’t sweat it, I’ll fix that up.

Ignore long tracking issues like this, these are more notes of a long discussion we’ve had.

If you see something you like leave an emoji, avoid “+1 I need this too!” since that just sends an email to everyone with no info. Screenshots are always good, and keep it tighly scoped if you can instead of dreaming big, that can come later. :smiley:

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The WIP there means “work in progress”, however if you’re on a daily build you’ll get a more finished look:

This shows recently updated apps, etc. There’s an issue to have it renamed to “Explore” instead of flathub.

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The new Flathub section looks really good! Amazing how fast all of this is coming together :star_struck:

Not sure if I can write about Bazzite here, but I didn’t see another topic about Bazaar in Bazzite section.

  1. Today I updated to the latest version of Bazzite and saw that Discover was gone. If I hadn’t known that the store was being replaced, I would have been shocked.

  2. I don’t understand whether Bazaar has picked up on managing already installed packages or not. I have Heroic installed, but on the Heroic page in Bazaar I see an “Install” button.

  3. I decided to test Bazaar behaviour and installed Haruna (which I already had installed). Now I see two Harunas in the “installed” list. But only one is displayed in the applications menu. Ok. I uninstalled both Harunas and then went to its page and clicked “Install” → after successful installation I still see the “Install” button. I click “Install” again and the installation happens again. Now I have two Harunas in my “installed” list again. I don’t understand this.

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Just simply name it “Progress”.

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Bazaar will pick up any installed application in discover,so if bazaar doesn’t see that an app is installed,maybe is because the app is layered / installed system-wide and not via flatpak.

Post the output of this 2 commands

rpm-ostree status
flatpak list       
  1. I have only RemovedBasePackages: lutris 0.5.19-1000.bazzite
  2. For Heroic I have
    com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl v2.17.2 stable system

Yeah thats weird,you should probably report it on bazaar issues

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How did your team remove the simple software center? You made it in your image, or you change the silverblue?

We package it here: packages/staging/bazaar at main · ublue-os/packages · GitHub

And then in each image that team removes gnome-software and adds bazaar. There’s a bot that checks bazaar’s repository for commits and then opens a pull request, that looks like this.

This is how we update Bazaar, the bot just checks if there’s something new every 30 minutes.

Then one of us clicks through, checks it out, and then approves. Then the PR gets merged and that triggers the builders to build the RPMs, then it publishes it to the ublue COPR.

Then whenever the images build next they’ll automatically pull in the updated RPM.

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Does the current version of Bazaar in Bluefin Stable have the ability to install flatpak addons?

I searched GitHub and based on the closed issue linked below it sounds like this functionality has been implemented, but when I bring up an app like VLC or OBS that has addons that display in Gnome Software, I don’t see them listed in Bazaar.

Just wondering if I am missing something or if the functionality just isn’t yet in the version of Bazaar shipped in Stable.

Yeah but you need to be on a daily image or wait until sunday morning for the usual weekly builds. There’s good stuff landing every day so it’s tough to keep track right now.

(I am having a hard time keeping up myself!)

Here are the instructions for moving to a daily build: Administrator's Guide | Bluefin

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Just a quick question: will the actual app name stay Bazaar? Because some users might have it manually added to a Panel or Menu (Arc Menu). That button/item will stop working if the app name changes.

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