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how somehting simple as installing a repository like flathub totally exhausted me and made me run for the hills.
I have to admit i'm pretty new to Linux, but i never thought that a seemingly user-friendly distro like vanilla OS would drive me crazy and I'm at wit's end.
utilizing youtube and several AI's, the maze turned into a swamp pushing me deeper and deeper to a point where I succumbed and will turn to another distro. But not before first explaining what happened. I'm clearly frustrated, but i don't want to spread bad blood to his beautiful community nor being disrespectful to all the hard working developers. here is the straw that the broke the camel's back:
to prove that flatpak was properly installed:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.14.0
1) installing flathub yielded an error:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ /etc/flatpak/flatpakrc.
bash: /etc/flatpak/flatpakrc.: No such file or directory
2) creation of the flatpackrx yielded next error:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo touch /etc/flatpak/flatpakrc
touch: cannot touch '/etc/flatpak/flatpakrc': No such file or directory
3) granting permissions to directory:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo chmod 755 /etc/flatpak
chmod: cannot access '/etc/flatpak': No such file or directory
4) manually creating the directory:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo mkdir /etc/flatpak
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo chown -R flatpak:flatpak /etc/flatpak
chown: invalid user: ‘flatpak:flatpak’
5) creating the flatpak group:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo groupadd flatpak
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo chmod -R g+rwx /etc/flatpak
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo chown -R flatpak:flatpak /etc/flatpak
chown: invalid user: ‘flatpak:flatpak’
6) reinitializing the group database:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo rm -rf /etc/group.lock /etc/group
[sudo] password for linuxindeed:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/groupadd -r flatpak
linuxindeed is not in the sudoers file.
7) add the current user to the sudoers:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo visudo
linuxindeed is not in the sudoers file
8) unlocking the file:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo chmod +w /etc/sudoers
linuxindeed is not in the sudoers file.
9) creating new user with root privileges:
linuxindeed@vanilla:~$ sudo adduser newuser --root
linuxindeed is not in the sudoers file.
10) same error when trying the pkexec adduser command
when i was furhter suggested to rebuild the root user account, i yielded and thought, this is all just too much for someone who is trying to learn linux.
Anyways, I assume that I did sth wrong down the line, but I really don't have the time and fortitude to dive futher into this and hope that this might help the community for furture considerations.
Cheers and have a good day!