Layered package's desktop application entry not being detected

Friend just installed emacs with

rpm-ostree install emacs

rpm-ostree install emacs

and rebooted, but still no Emacs on boot.

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 2:59 AM

It seems to have just been completely not installed

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 2:59 AM

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 3:01 AM

okay no, apparently emacs just literally isn't installed, despite layering it and rebooting, according to her

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 3:13 AM

yeah she literally ran rpm-ostree install emacs, waited for it to finish, rebooted, and got this:

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 3:13 AM

wolfyreload•6/4/24, 3:53 AM

not sure if emacs is supposed to have a desktop entry, what happens if you open the terminal and type ?

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:06 AM

Nothing

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:06 AM

It isn't found

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:06 AM

I have emacs layered on my system and it comes with w desktop file

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:07 AM

It is a fully GUI app primarily after all

wolfyreload•6/4/24, 4:09 AM

That's odd, it's as if it didn't layer it at all

wolfyreload•6/4/24, 4:11 AM

what happens if she runs

rpm-ostree install emacs

rpm-ostree install emacs

again? Maybe the process got interrupted.

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:12 AM

She just gave up and got the flatpak (which doesn't have native comp which I'd why we didn't go with it)

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:12 AM

She says the process completed

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:12 AM

She tried to use apply live and it failed, then she rebooted, so maybe apply live broke it

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[[xenofembutch]]OP•6/4/24, 4:13 AM

She also rebooted using GNOME's restart button instead of the proper so it could've been that?

wolfyreload•6/4/24, 4:14 AM

using the command line reboot or the GUI reboot shouldn't make a difference.

wolfyreload•6/4/24, 4:15 AM

What I think happened was that the apply live failed so it did nothing on reboot because there was nothing to apply. Generally avoid the apply-live it's rather fickle