Boxbuddy not automatically installed

[Paolo_Mainardi]

Hi everyone, First of all, let me say that Bluefin and the ecosystem are the most exciting things on Linux in years. Thanks for your dedication to making this happen.

I have just noticed that Boxbuddy is not installed; for some reason, I am actually running the DX variant. I saw that it is part of the default flatpaks bluefin/bluefin_flatpaks/flatpaks at d045d24ddd2e483e0ad80f31becf597ae4012433 · ublue-os/bluefin · GitHub

I know I can reinstall it, as I would like to dig deeper. I wonder why it happened in a fresh installation and if I am making the correct assumptions.

[SylChamber]

You can reinstall flatpak apps by running ujust install-system-flatpaks in Terminal.

[JohnAtl]

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[stepomaticc]

had exactly the same experience today on a brand new bluefin was surprise. i did too ujust install-system-flatpaks but no not here, but after flatpack boxbuddy and distroshelf everything ok