Firefox the flatpak version crashed and decided to remove itself from the system, is this common on Linux??
I checked thru Discover and terminal using whereis firefox and all I got is user/lib64/firefox
I should be mad, but I find this too hilarious to be mad… lol… files disappear not entire apps
No, because it doesn’t happen. Guaranteed your storage device or some other hardware component is having problems that is corrupting your drive.
Be honest. What did you say that offended Firefox so bad it decided to leave?
Did it really uninstall itself? Run this command and check whether you can see Firefox’s ID or not:
flatpak list
If firefox is still in /usr/lib64/firefox, then it should still be there. Maybe just the .desktop file is removed?
More than likely it was a failed package transition that failed. You were running one version, an update triggered, something went wrong, and your data folders got orphaned. You can try running a repair on the package, but they usually fail the same way.
Does this mean everytime there’s an update, Firefox will get uninstalled? … That’s a serious flaw
No. Sometimes package managers run into issues though. It’s rare, but it’s possible. If you had been updating on the CLI you would have seen the problem.
Anytime there is an update, files are often deleted during that process so they can be replaced with new files or because those files are no longer part of the new version being installed. If an error occurs during this process, it is possible that an application will appear not to be installed because it’s broken.
Anyway, most software does at least partially “uninstall” when it is updating, so if the install fails, then it’s always possible that an update will have uninstalled something. That’s just updates regardless of operating systems, package managers, etc.
