Anyone who's been using computers for a while (any OS, not just Linux) will be aware that uninstalling an app doesn't always remove all data associated
For fun, a shell script for the same functionality:
#!/bin/sh
br="$(printf "\n")"# Obtain a line-break# If RM_CMD is unset, use trash-cliif [ -z ${RM_CMD+y} ]; then RM_CMD="trash"; fi# List of apps. The leading br is necessary for later pattern matching
apps="$br$(flatpak list --columns=application)" || exit 1
cd ~/.var/app || exit 1
for app in *; docase"$apps"in
*"$br$app$br"*) ;; # Matches if $app is in the list (installed)
*)
printf'Removing app data %s\n'"${app}""$RM_CMD""./${app}"
;;
esacdone
#!/bin/bash# List contents of ~/.var/app/
files=$(ls -1 ~/.var/app/)
# Loop through each element of the folderfor file in$files; do# Set the name as a variable
app_name="${file##*/}"# Check if a flatpak app of that name is installedif ! flatpak list 2> /dev/null | grep -qw $app_name; then# Ask the user to delete the folderread -p "The app $app_name is not installed. Do you want to delete its folder? (y/n): " choice
case"$choice"in
[Yy]* )
# Remove the folder recursivelyrm -rf ~/.var/app/$file;;
[Nn]* )
echo"Skipping deletion of $app_name folder.";;
* )
echo"Invalid input. Skipping deletion of $app_name folder.";;
esacfidoneecho"All Apps checked."
For fun, a shell script for the same functionality:
#!/bin/sh br="$(printf "\n")" # Obtain a line-break # If RM_CMD is unset, use trash-cli if [ -z ${RM_CMD+y} ]; then RM_CMD="trash"; fi # List of apps. The leading br is necessary for later pattern matching apps="$br$(flatpak list --columns=application)" || exit 1 cd ~/.var/app || exit 1 for app in *; do case "$apps" in *"$br$app$br"*) ;; # Matches if $app is in the list (installed) *) printf 'Removing app data %s\n' "${app}" "$RM_CMD" "./${app}" ;; esac done(May eat your files)
Pretty complicated
#!/bin/bash # List contents of ~/.var/app/ files=$(ls -1 ~/.var/app/) # Loop through each element of the folder for file in $files; do # Set the name as a variable app_name="${file##*/}" # Check if a flatpak app of that name is installed if ! flatpak list 2> /dev/null | grep -qw $app_name; then # Ask the user to delete the folder read -p "The app $app_name is not installed. Do you want to delete its folder? (y/n): " choice case "$choice" in [Yy]* ) # Remove the folder recursively rm -rf ~/.var/app/$file;; [Nn]* ) echo "Skipping deletion of $app_name folder.";; * ) echo "Invalid input. Skipping deletion of $app_name folder.";; esac fi done echo "All Apps checked."The check for if a package is installed can be simplified using
flatpak info.$ flatpak info com.example.Nonexistent &>/dev/null; echo $? 1 $ flatpak info org.mozilla.firefox &>/dev/null; echo $? 0