# Call for Testing: Bazaar as a Flathub store **URL:** \ **Category:** Bluefin\ **Created:** [May 19, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599 "2025-05-19T15:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/104 "2025-06-20T12:37:27Z")
Ok Bluefin is finishing up … we’ll likely land this after the weeklies go out. ![bluefin_bazaar](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/c/c81d87db5ae67936a5114725c39c6fe1ac7133c2.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/105 "2025-06-20T12:52:26Z")
> [@rrenomeron](#): > > That message was from a popup dialog in bazzar, so it’s for sure related. Looks similar to this? There’s a gpg error here: [No content, "offline" · Issue #31 · kolunmi/bazaar · GitHub](https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar/issues/31) ---
**Author:** ![xarishark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/xarishark/32/6931_2.png) [@xarishark](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/xarishark)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/106 "2025-06-20T13:02:38Z")
> [@j0rge](#): > > … we’ll likely land this after the weeklies go out. Is there a chance we could get a solution to the left–right scrolling, which is not intuitive for mouse and keyboard users? In my opinion, it’s much better to have multiple static rows of apps, capped at, say, three rows, rather than going for the left–right scrolling layout. One idea is that the last app in the bottom right corner becomes a **“Show More”** button that expands the category on a new page. That would be a much tidier approach. ---
**Author:** ![klmcw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@klmcw](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/klmcw)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/107 "2025-06-20T13:06:32Z")
I do not see an issue that sounds like what you are describing - [GitHub · Where software is built](https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar/issues) Did you file one? ---
**Author:** ![rrenomeron](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/rrenomeron/32/1290_2.png) [@rrenomeron](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/rrenomeron)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/108 "2025-06-20T13:06:34Z")
TL;DR: I had a non-flatub remote configured, and it seems that confuses it? The remote in question is run by someone who is not to be trusted (me), who definitely has skill issues wrt running such a thing. Its reason for existence has gone away, so I removed the remote from my flatpak config and all was well. I _guess_ the reason for the signature error message is that it doesn’t have the public key for my repo? But that raises some other questions, like: - Does it assume that Flathub is the only remote configured? - Have we even considered a multi-repo use case, or is that a 4% thing? - If a multi-repo setup is in scope, should we be a bit more resilient and move on to the next repo if the first one in the list fails? In other news, loving how this is coming along. It’s much nicer than since I last tried it. Looking forward to this landing in GTS someday. Troubleshooting steps below for the benefit of future searchers. Here’s the screenshot: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/9/9544740141f652017809bf52660d16b2d3ba4335.png) and then this when I clear the dialog box: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/2/2d80fdfc81c0b8f37d336a0fe41a71c0e96c2ea6.png) (I’m typing this from the same VM where I ran bazaar, so the machine is not offline obv.) In the terminal window: ```auto $ bazaar window --auto-service **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 're.sonny.Eloquent' not found **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 'io.github.fabrialberio.pinapp' not found **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 'app.fotema.Fotema' not found **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 'be.alexandervanhee.gradia' not found **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 'app.drey.Damask' not found **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 'io.github.pleromix.IceBox' not found **(bazaar:5395): CRITICAL**: 08:40:57.521: appid 'com.github.ADBeveridge.Raider' not found ``` … continuing with many '$FLATHUB\_APP\_ID not found` messages. ---
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/109 "2025-06-20T13:44:33Z")
> [@rrenomeron](#): > > - Have we even considered a multi-repo use case, or is that a 4% thing? Bazaar upstream will probably want to support this anyway so that’s up to kolumni and whoever sends the pull request. But in the context of Bluefin we’re hiding all of that stuff, Flathub only with the official remote. ---
**Author:** ![red11](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/red11/32/3696_2.png) [@red11](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/red11)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/110 "2025-06-20T15:57:55Z")
> [@rrenomeron](#): > > Have we even considered a multi-repo use case What extra repo you need? In Fedora there are two repos flathub and fedora. Despide good intention to offer high quality flatpaks that are built from RPM sources and controlled security, from end user point of view when the same flatpak name exists in both repos then there is nagging question to user from which repo wants flatpack to be installed from. We need very good reason to include additional repo in default Blufin, to make sure we don’t nagg users with decisions user doesn’t want to be nagged about. ---
**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/111 "2025-06-20T23:42:53Z")
~~Installed Bluefin stable in a VM. Bazaar wouldn’t run from overview. I ran it from the terminal, and it opened. Browse didn’t work (blank window), but search did. Installed a few things, it worked, and I like the way it works while installing.~~ As far as the operation goes: - When you click Install, the small window appears over the blurred background, and the search window is gone. It’s kind of jarring, and you lose context, I guess you would say. - After install finishes, it says Finished, but it isn’t apparent that you need to clock off of the window that opened. That’s kind of intuitive on a phone, but we’re used to buttons on a computer. Then you’re back to Search or Browse. It would be nice to be back where you were. - At some point while libre office was installing, I clicked off of the window, and it went away. I think I ran Bazaar again, tried to install again, and libre office had already been installed. ~~When I first ran bazaar, it told me a number of flatpaks needed to be updated, which was really cool! ~~ nvm! Keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/112 "2025-06-20T23:56:51Z")
Make sure you’ve updated after installing the ISO, that sounds like an old build. ---
**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/113 "2025-06-21T01:50:42Z")
Will do. I thought the isos were always updated. ---
**Author:** ![m2Giles](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/m2giles/32/471_2.png) [@m2Giles](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/m2Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/114 "2025-06-21T02:04:51Z")
We do not spin them up every week. ---
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/115 "2025-06-21T02:25:11Z")
Yeah the ISO process was so unreliable we decided to play it safe, though I’ll likely respin them for when we switch over to bazaar. Once we’re confident we’ll reinvestigate moving back to biweekly updates or something. Anyone have a Fedora Workstation VM or wanna see if this works? The more people we get trying it the better. [https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/ublue-os/staging/fedora-42-x86\_64/09196074-bazaar/bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86\_64.rpm](https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/ublue-os/staging/fedora-42-x86_64/09196074-bazaar/bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64.rpm) ---
**Author:** ![JohnAtl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/johnatl/32/3485_2.png) [@JohnAtl](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/JohnAtl)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/116 "2025-06-21T14:20:10Z")
Wow! What a difference a month makes! Very nice! Only one suggestion, perhaps an open button for the app: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/0/013103fc94fbd3671dda52772b951d1971ed41b3.png) Oh, wait, one more: it would be nice to start searching if you just start typing, the same as Software. Also, unpopular opinion, I would gladly support authors of PCSS (is that an acronym?, Paid and Closed Source Software) who made things I like and sold them through e.g. Bazaar. ---
**Author:** ![xarishark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/xarishark/32/6931_2.png) [@xarishark](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/xarishark)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/117 "2025-06-21T14:49:48Z")
+1 on this. Forced open source is holding Linux back, whether we like it or not. Not everything is open source (e.g., proprietary drivers). Take Serif’s Affinity suite, for example, it’s an amazing alternative to Adobe’s apps, but there’s no way they’re going to open source their software. If they ported their apps to Linux in flatpak form , we’d see a huge influx of users, because it would let people escape both Windows and Adobe in one move. ---
**Author:** ![anon94066538](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94066538](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/anon94066538)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/118 "2025-06-21T16:24:52Z")
> [@j0rge](#): > > Anyone have a Fedora Workstation VM or wanna see if this works? The more people we get trying it the better. > > [https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/ublue-os/staging/fedora-42-x86\_64/09196074-bazaar/bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86\_64.rpm](https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/ublue-os/staging/fedora-42-x86_64/09196074-bazaar/bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64.rpm) Full disclosure, I can barely find my way out of a paper bag, but I gave it a shot - ran into this: ![Screenshot_20250621_121223](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/0/02eada358f6ca1d91459b8320f3248cd2a506a07.png) Checked the referenced path, and sure enough `/ublue-os/bazaar/blocklist.txt` doesn’t exist. I’m guessing that makes sense since this is Fedora Workstation and not a ublue image. Probably user error/misunderstanding, but providing the feedback just in case. ---
**Author:** ![klmcw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@klmcw](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/klmcw)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/119 "2025-06-21T17:52:09Z")
@j0rge Good timing. I was just about to overwrite my Fedora WS 42 install with Aurora. Because of what was found above I didn’t bother to try to install. But I did do an `rpm -V`. ```auto $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 42 (Adams) $ sudo rpm -V bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64.rpm warning: bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f037e600: NOKEY Unsatisfied dependencies for bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64: glycin-libs is needed by bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64 libdex-1.so.1()(64bit) is needed by bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64 libglycin-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64 libglycin-gtk4-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by bazaar-0.0.git.851.98f26b81.29a9117-2.fc42.x86_64 missing /usr/bin/bazaar missing a /usr/lib/.build-id/a9/a620135e6bda6ae72942678d0cd87c48de4df8 missing /usr/share/applications/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar.desktop missing /usr/share/dbus-1/services/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar.service missing /usr/share/doc/bazaar missing d /usr/share/doc/bazaar/README.md missing /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar.gschema.xml missing /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar.search-provider.ini missing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar.svg missing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar-symbolic.svg missing /usr/share/licenses/bazaar missing l /usr/share/licenses/bazaar/COPYING missing /usr/share/metainfo/io.github.kolunmi.bazaar.metainfo.xml ``` ---
**Author:** ![red11](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/red11/32/3696_2.png) [@red11](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/red11)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/120 "2025-06-21T18:04:18Z")
Can you try: `sudo dnf -y install ` that should install dependecies. ---
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/121 "2025-06-21T19:33:25Z")
> [@anon94066538](#): > > Probably user error/misunderstanding, but providing the feedback just in case. Nah it just means we need to bundle something, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![klmcw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@klmcw](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/klmcw)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/122 "2025-06-21T19:35:54Z")
I was just providing a report. That drive has been repurposed now. ---
**Author:** ![j0rge](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/j0rge/32/8_2.png) [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-bazaar-as-a-flathub-store/8599/124 "2025-06-22T00:07:17Z")
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