I installed FreeFileSync via Flatpak on Fedora 42.
I added the following Command to RealtimeSync:
/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=FreeFileSync --file-forwarding org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync " /home/sky22/Scripts/BatchRunAll.ffs_batch"
And get the error:
/usr/bin/flatpak: file or path does not exist
When I run the command in terminal, it works well. So it seems like the Flatpak is missing some permissions ton access /usr/bin/flatpak.
Any ideas how I could fix it?
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Plerry
Flatpack distributions are not official distributions, and not supported via this site.
You can find the official distributions via https://freefilesync.org/download.php
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sky22
This official distribution doesn't work either because it depends on GTK2 with is missing on Fedora and I won't install it because it's eol.
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bgstack15
That command as show includes a space in the path for your ffs_batch file. The space is the first character in the path, and would make the path invalid.
Once you get past past that problem, sometimes flatpak might need special permission for accessing your home directory or contents beneath it. You might want to check what permissions the flatpak has, and you might need to give it exact permissions.
