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Flathub JDK SDKs broken

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reading flatpak-warning.txt and reproducing the documented command with the Flathub JDK extension. Use the linked vscode-java issue to understand the Java-side failure, then identify the sandbox setting involved; done means the Flatpak VSCode instance can view and use the JDK binary.

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Description

Installing the JDK from Flathub (for example https://flathub.org/apps/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.openjdk21) and then running Flatpak VSCode with FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=openjdk21 flatpak run com.visualstudio.code as per the instructions on flatpak-warning.txt does not work with Java. The file is inaccessible because of the sandbox. Please loosen the sandbox a little to be able to view the JDK binary. See more here: https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-java/issues/510

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Merged PRs (30d)
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