A lot of packages cannot be found

[nowave7]

I just updated the SFOS to the latest stable release (4.3.0.15), and since then I'm having trouble installing applications through storeman. Now, I'm not entirely sure if this is related, since I haven't been installing or updating any apps in some time now, probably weeks, so it might be purely coincidental. In any case, I am able to install some, and unable to install other applications. Doesn't seem to be a rule to it. The only error reported in the UI is: "An error occured Couldn't find package" Starting the app from terminal yields the following: [defaultuser@XperiaXA2 Downloads]$ /usr/bin/harbour-storeman [D] unknown:0 - Using Wayland-EGL [W] unknown:126 - file:///usr/share/harbour-storeman/qml/harbour-storeman.qml:126:30: QML MainPage: Binding loop detected for property "status" [W] unknown:126 - file:///usr/share/harbour-storeman/qml/harbour-storeman.qml:126:30: QML MainPage: Binding loop detected for property "status" [W] unknown:0 - OrnAppsModel(0x4b365d8) Model is already fetching data [W] unknown:0 - libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile [C] unknown:0 - Could not read "/home/.zypp-cache/solv/openrepos-planetos_store/solv" [C] unknown:0 - Could not read "/home/.zypp-cache/solv/openrepos-karin_zhao/solv" [C] unknown:0 - Could not read "/home/.zypp-cache/solv/openrepos-black_sheep_dev/solv" [C] unknown:0 - Could not read "/home/.zypp-cache/solv/openrepos-Rikudou_Sennin/solv" Though all the errors were present upon just starting the storeman, nothin new comes when trying to install an app.

Any thoughts where we could get more insight into what the problem might be? Thanks!

[Olf0]

Which Storeman version are you using? See "About" in pulley menu.

[nowave7]

Hey Olf0, the installed version is 0.2.8. I've also tried reinstalling the app, but that didn't help.

[Olf0]

Please execute in the terminal:

devel-su
pkcon refresh
zypper refresh

If you do not have zypper installed, the last line will fail and that is O.K. (i.e., do not install zypper to execute it).

And you should consider to update to a recent version of Storeman via Storeman Installer: https://openrepos.net/content/osetr/storeman-installer Read the instructions first!

[nowave7]

Hey Olf0, I've did the pkcon refresh, multiple times as well, but still have some issues installing some packages. One more interesting thing is that there are also some apps that don't even have the install option just refresh cache and reload. One interesting thing is that I am able to find packages with, for example pkcon search packagename:

pkcon search theme Searching by details Starting Refreshing software list Querying Finished Available harbour-themepack-n9ish-0.0.2-1.armv7hl (openrepos-speactra) N9ish Icon pack Available harbour-themepack-signika-font-0.1-1.noarch (openrepos-Rikudou_Sennin) Signika Font Available harbour-themepack-uniform-0.1-1.noarch (openrepos-Rikudou_Sennin) Uniform Icon Pack

but, unable to install:

[defaultuser@XperiaXA2 ~]$ pkcon install harbour-themepack-n9ish-0.0.2-1.armv7hl Resolving [ ] (0%) Package not found: harbour-themepack-n9ish-0.0.2-1.armv7hl Command failed: This tool could not find any available package: No packages were found

[Olf0]

And you should consider to update to a recent version of Storeman via Storeman Installer: https://openrepos.net/content/osetr/storeman-installer

O.K., you seem to have tried that and Storeman Installer did not start, correct?

Then download the latest Storeman 0.2.11 from https://build.sailfishos.org/package/show/home:mentaljam/harbour-storeman I.e. for your Xperia XA2 (armv7hl) on SFOS 4.3.0: https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/home:/mentaljam/4.3.0.12_armv7hl/armv7hl/harbour-storeman-0.2.11+sfos4.2.20210918134855.2.g1945da7-1.34.1.jolla.armv7hl.rpm Install it via filemanager or pkcon install-local harbour-storeman-0.2.11+sfos4.2.20210918134855.2.g1945da7-1.34.1.jolla.armv7hl.rpm

[nowave7]

Yes, I've had issues installing it through the installer package. So I ended up installing it manually from the command line like you explained. When it comes to the package I referenced in my previous post, the problem turned out to be something else, namely a missing dependency for the theme, which was solved by installing the Clockwork, sorry for the unintentional confusion. There are, however, still some packages that just report package not found when trying to install them. It looks to me that, once the repository that holds the package has been added, the pkcon refresh needs to be run even though the GUI forntend also does the refresh, and sometimes not just once... Not sure why that is. I'm not that familiar with this package manager (apt-get kind of guy). In any case, I have a workaround for this, so it's not a deal breaker, and being that the development of the storeman itself is now put into question, I guess we can close this issue. Thanks for your time and help Olf0!