Can't add files from a mounted partition

[lou-pcos]

I’m using Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon. I’ve just installed two versions of Picard - 1.3.2 through PPA and 1.4.2 through Flatpak.

The Flatpak version will not let me navigate to /media/… where my music partition is, and I also can’t drag and drop files from Nemo into Picard.

1.3.2 PPA version works fine.

Can anyone tell me if there’s a way I can get the latest version to work, either by fixing my flatpak version or by installing 1.4.2 through PPA?

Thank you

[skyghis]

I’m very interested by a PPA containing the version 1.4.2.
The official PPA is no longer updated

I tried to find alternative PPA without success for the moment.

[CallerNo6]

@lou-pcos

The Flatpak version will not let me navigate to /media/…

To my untrained eye this looks like a Flatpak sandboxing thing.

If I understand correctly, the Flatpak manifest is only allowing picard access to /home (and sub-dirs).

@https://github.com/flathub/org.musicbrainz.Picard/blob/master/org.musicbrainz.Picard.json

“finish-args”: [
“–share=ipc”,
“–socket=x11”,
“–share=network”,
“–filesystem=home”,
“–talk-name=org.gnome.GConf”

[outsidecontext]

@skyghis

I’m very interested by a PPA containing the version 1.4.2.
The official PPA is no longer updated

It took some time, but it is updated now:

Picard Ubuntu packages updated

Finally updated Picard packages for Ubuntu are available over the official MusicBrainz Ubuntu PPAs. For most users it is recommended to use the stable PPA to install the latest stable release of Picard (1.4.2 at the time of writing this): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:musicbrainz-developers/stable sudo apt update sudo apt install picard Up-to-date stable packages are available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, 15.05 Vivid, 16.04 Xenial, 17.04 Zesty and upcoming 17.10 Artful. For users wanting to try out…

[lou-pcos]

thank you for the note, would have missed it!