Flatpak problem

[Atreides]

I have 1.16 installed via flatpak as the stable branch. When 1.16.1 came out I did a flatpak update as root and it installed and updated a few things including 3 Mb of update from 1.16 to 1.16.1.

However when I ran the new program it was still 1.16.0. What happened?

[Pentarctagon]

I'm not sure what would be causing that to happen. When I do a flatpak update locally I get:

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flatpak update
Looking for updates…


        ID                            Branch          Op          Remote                  Download
 1. [✓] org.wesnoth.Wesnoth           stable          u           flathub                  3.6 MB / 474.0 MB
 2. [✓] org.wesnoth.Wesnoth           master          u           wesnoth-origin          11.9 MB / 475.4 MB

Updates complete.

Then launching gives:

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flatpak run org.wesnoth.Wesnoth
Battle for Wesnoth v1.16.1 x86_64
Started on Thu Nov 11 12:31:01 2021


Data directory:               /app/share/wesnoth
User configuration directory: /home/USER/.var/app/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth/config/wesnoth
User data directory:          /home/USER/.var/app/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth/data/wesnoth/1.16
Cache directory:              /home/USER/.var/app/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth/cache/wesnoth

Setting mode to 2560x1415
Checking lua scripts... ok

And it shows 1.16.1 in the bottom left corner. You're getting the flatpak from Flathub and not another source, right?

[Atreides]

That is identical to what I see. Down to the 3.6 MB download total!

Yet when I type in the exact same command to run from a terminal I get 1.16.0 still.

I even uninstalled and reinstalled.

Funny thing is that when I type flatpak list it actually lists it as 1.16.1! Yet it is not.

Yes, flathub except for the master branch which I also have installed from the other remote. The 1.17 I have does have the new 16.1 fixes such as the sidebar popups working again.

Well, I guess this is unsolvable. I'll just wait for 16.2 and hope that works.

[Atreides]

Mystery solved.

I discovered by chance that flatpak has a bad flaw. As root when you type flatpak list it lists only system installed flatpaks. I happened to enter the command as my user and found that a user install of 1.16.0 from org.wesnoth.Wesnoth-origins was installed! I remember now that I'd tried to install 1.16 via the web earlier but it had seemed to fail so I forgot all about it and of course due to the flatpak defect I couldn't know.

1.16.1 was installed all this time as a system install but the user install presumably received priority when I ran it. Out of curiosity I'm going to try and track down WHERE the user files were hiding (I am well familiar with where the system files reside).