my 18 year old cousin borrowed it
Ran a system update after I got it back today and saw this, we have been trying to get stream play work wether through link or sunrise the whole day but while I was using the chat here, he was using my machine, and I hate seeing error messages in my update.
Is it safe or not?
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That looks like an issue with one of your distrobox containers
you can just wipe out that box and remake it, or uninstall the one package it's complaining about from the container
either way, nothing that affects your base system here
I haven't really done anything to anything called distrobox
How do I check this and eventually remove this confict
But my cousin just said he did 🤦🤦🤦
As he thought it would fix the sunshine problem, he did ujust distrobox and then chose the Bazzite version as the "terminal told him that it would be quicker when installing instead of pulling rpm or something"
Exactly how much did he fuck up?
nothing at all
they're containers
completely separate from your host
open BoxBuddy and you can see what applications are installed in each container
figure out which container to delete
Okay, thank you
Which one is one that I don't need/can delete?
you can delete both, but before you do
did you install anything from the bazzite portal?
well not flatpaks
like on the first page
some of them use distrobox containers
actually delete both and if you notice something missing, go through the bazzite portal again
Do I delete arch?
Or Bazzite-arch, I have no idea what it even is.
Yeah, emudeck and a few necessary programs so I feel like I have a basic OS
emudeck doesn't use that
and im only talking the first page
the 3rd page with all of the categories are flatpaks
so they dont use containers
you can delete both
if you never used them before, you won't be missing anything
Got it through the setup process?
ignore what i said lol
you'll be fine
containers are meant to be trashed
like if you're curious what you're removing, read into this:
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=35
Universal Blue
Installing and Managing Software on Bazzite
Package Formats 1. Flatpak [Flatpak] Flatpak is the primary method of installing applications on Bazzite. It is a universal containerized package format that tries to sandbox applications through flexible permissions that the application has access to on your system. Typically it is recommended to use Flatpak for most software when possible. ...
and go to "3. Linux container environments"
there's really nothing that can be permanently messed up by removing containers since they can be setup again if they need to. and if you're not even sure what this is and your cousin did this then you'll probably not miss anything important
Aahhhh, according to this the standard distrobox that comes with Bazzite deck image is the arch so that's the one I'd want to keep, thank you for your help.
nah it's the default container when you enter:
you can keep it though
it gives you access to Arch's user repositories which has a lot of packages
Just did
Thx