Flatpak search broken on Rocky Linux 8

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Hi,

Flatpak works perfectly under Rocky Linux 9. Once Flathub is configured, here’s what a search returns on Rocky Linux 9:

# flatpak search skype
...
Skype Call and message skype users com.skype.Client    8.134.0.202 stable flathub
...

And here’s the same search under Rocky Linux 8:

# flatpak search skype
F: Failed to parse /var/lib/flatpak/appstream/flathub/x86_64/active/appstream.xml.gz file: Error on line 7058 char 29: <p> already set '

This has been broken for quite some time. Any idea how to fix it?

On a side note, it’s not really a showstopper, since one can always use Flathub’s web interface to search for Flatpaks. It’s just a bit annoying, that’s all.

Cheers,

Niki

2

You should open a ticket for EL8 upstream. The same was done for EL9 already and fixed (https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28856)

3

This is covered in this document (see the warning in the “Flatpak Commands” section). This references the EL9 version, but the workaround is to use Flathub instead of the commands.