Hmm I’m taking it back. It looks like I can install some apps but some I cannot. Not sure why …
The ones you can’t install, probably is 32-bit only.
And yea… you can use pkcon install <packetname> if repo is installed.
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storeman did appear after installation but chum does not.
i have tried 2,3 times now, storeman shows it as installed, but no icon:
log says: cant access given url
New user here. Instead of creating a new subject regarding storeman and chum, I thought it would be best to continue here. Though I do not own a c2 , but an: xperia 10ii on latest os release.
Can anybody explain to me, either if I´m doing anything wrong, or, how it´s possible to add a chum app (or storeman app) on sailfishos 5?
I did install : Storeman Installer | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System
and typed this in termnial: devel-su pkcon refresh
even after reboot, no new installer app icon are present.
The same story (for me) with chum SailfishOS:Chum GUI Installer | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System
The reason I looked at mostly chum, is because of a tidal app, but I just asume that I need a chum app to even install the tidal app.
Reading about the storeman and chum in here, just leads to more confusion (for a new user) : is storeman “dead” ? Am I doing something wrong, if I can´t even figure out how to install chum apps, although I´m pretty sure I´ve added the repo?
So please, be nice 
Iḿ not, at all, a linux power user. But I do run linux on my pc. So I guess I just have to be sure, if sailfish users, if wishing for more apps, have to install them via terminal, instead of being confused about why storeman and chum store (or at least installer) apps , will not appear ?
I hope it makes sense, regarding what my question even is.. 
To sum up: new user - is it possible in 2026, on sfos 5, to install 3rd party apps via a store-app. And if not, how do we install chum apps, at least..and, does chum have a working store-app
Thanks 
Neither Chum nor OpenRepos are ‘dead’ and both Chum GUI and Storeman are working fine.
Can you say which exact files you downloaded?
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I see.
Off course. I just guessed, that the latest releases were fine:
harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch.rpm
and
sailfishos-chum-gui-installer-0.6.9-1.noarch.rpm
My first thought, was, that after installing the installers, running the terminal update command, and rebooting, the graphical installer apps would maybe appear when seraching for them in the jolla store.. But that would´ve been too easy, I guess 
Reasonable guess and that is usually what happens! 
Can you try this command please:
devel-su pkcon install-local /path/to/installer.rpm
(replacing path and rpm name as appropriate)
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Installing via terminal returns no errors. But even after : pkcon refresh and a device reboot. Still no new installer app, either in the app drawer or when searching in the jolla store..
2 questions before we waste more time 
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if a 3rd party store installer is correctly installed. where should it normally appear? in the app drawer/list or in the jolla store
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As I understand it, the “only” limitations on a trial OS should be Android apps and Outlook compability. Or is it, maybe my issue here, being on a trial license?
If yes regarding question no.2 , I don´t understand why storeman isn´t at least visible, when Aurora and f-droid store is indeed visible. Though not installable, regarding to trial
Sorry if I ask too much
An icon for newly installed software should appear at the end of the app drawer.
Have you allowed the installation of third-party software in the settings?
I did , yes
Thanks for clearifying regarding appearence of the installer app
Install both via the grafical interface (file manager) and terminal, does not return any errors
an app like for example “was” from openrepos: Was | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System installs fine, and does appear in the app drawer.
I was unsure regarding storeman as I do not know it´s structure, or if it was discontinued (as mentioned earlier). I´m not an expert/power user
Weird. Anyhow, what you should do on a fresh install is refresh the repositories - e.g. with devel-su pkcon refresh - and then install the Storeman Installer, not Storeman itself. It sounds like you did it the other way round?
In any case, from now on please post the output you get from any given terminal command.
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Thank you for trying to help. Actually I did both: refreshed before and after. Even though I did not quite get why repos should be updated before trying to install a local file.
In the graphical interface, when hitting install in file manager, I get no error (the installer, installs fine)
Imo, there shouldn´t be any difference, when trying to do the same via terminal ? (I´m not sure)
In the terminal, when typing:
devel-su pkcon refresh
And then:
devel-su pkcon install-local /home/defaultuser/Downloads/harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch.rpm
The output is the same as earlier mentioned. No errors..
Installing files
Testing changes
Completed [ ] (0%)
The following packages need to be installed:
harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch Installs Storeman for SailfishOS
Continue with changes? [N/y] y
Testing changes
Installing files
Starting
Installing packages
Completed
Fetched harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch (PK_TMP_DIR) Installs Storeman for SailfishOS
Installed harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch (PK_TMP_DIR) Installs Storeman for SailfishOS
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$
But still no new installer icon in the app drawer
Again: I´m not sure if trying to install a local .rpm is the correct way to do this in 2026
When you´re telling me it´s important to update the repos first, is it then, because we have to know the correct remote url for the storeman repo, to use in a terminal remote file install. To actually get the correct installer app including the app icon?
I´m sorry, but sailfishOS seems to be missing a wiki or tutorial for beginners. No doubt the info is in here somewhere. But I haven´t been able to piece it together yet.
I was about to confirme that my wife had the exacte same issue (I dont) and that logs were showing issue with URL (??)… as I couldn’t recall exactly what the error was, I gave it one more try. Guess, after we remove the installed package, did some “refresh”, then reinstalled it, for the 1st time in month, the icon is now visible on her C2 ???
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You lost me a bit there? Did it help to:
devel-su pkcon refresh
over days or even weeks?
And then, when installing storeman, again (which version btw). The Icon, if I´m lucky, will appear?
Although you got a url error, before you managed to obtain the icon?
This thread mentions both chum and storeman. The same storeman release as I´m trying to install, it seems. When looking at the most recent posts. I can´t figure out, how many of you, succeeded the install on sfos 5 , and if we´re just a small group, having troubles, and why..
Sorry about that.
Multiple times over (almost) the past 1 year we tried to install Storeman on her C2 without success. At least, the icon has always been missing, even following a “successful” installation.
Yesterday we gave it another go, without success (again), and we did it as follow (as root):
- un-install any previous version from cli (done that every time as we have tried multiple versions)
- run
pkcon refresh - run installer from cli:
pkcon install-local /<path_to_file>/harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch.rpm(which I believe is what you’ve done already) - restart the phone (did not do that on the successful attempt)
Like I said, this failed for us…then later I saw your post and wanted to add a (similar) comment, and I recall there was some error as well in the installer log file, so I gave it another go to collect the error and to share it here, using the same sequence. But this time the installation worked 
The log file is located here: /var/log/harbour-storeman-installer.log.txt
Since we have tried so many time without success, including this working sequence, I’ve the feeling that there might be something “external” to the Storeman installer that get along the way…just dont know what.
Note that yesterday we (finally) also managed to install Chum on her phone -she had similar issue with no visible icon.
Because of dependencies 
Sorry about me demanding CLI output; at the very least I should’ve checked myself before doing that: pkcon has a verbose option that apparently needs to be applied here to get better info, so each command should start with pkcon -v.
Just the other day I had the same problem here
But considering your & other people’s experiences my solution appears to be just as random and anecdotal as everybody else’s. Would be nice to get to the bottom of this.
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@myjolla_ph & @ohnonot Thank you for trying to explain things more detailed.
I´m still suspecting that my trial version of sfos5 is part of the problem, but I´m not experienced enough in linux terminal, to understand all outcomes fully. I mostly seem to guess..
At this time, I can actually install chum-market (app shows) but error at startup is: failed to fetch
Even , as I have indeed, added the repos manually
Enabled repositories (user):
harbour-storeman-obs ... https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/home:/olf:/harbour-storeman/chum_aarch64/
sailfishos-chum ... https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/sailfishos:/chum/chum_aarch64/
store ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/xqau52/aarch64/?version=chumEnabled
When trying to install Tidalplayer manually , I get message regarding missing python-dateutil
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$ devel-su pkcon install-local /home/defaultuser/Downloads/harbour-tidalplayer-0.3.0-1.5.1.bso.noarch.rpm
Password:
Installing files
Testing changes
Completed
Fatal error: nothing provides 'python-dateutil' needed by the to be installed harbour-tidalplayer-0.3.0-1.5.1.bso.noarch
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$
When I try to install python-dateutil, I get this output
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$ devel-su pkcon install-local /home/defaultuser/Downloads/python-dateutil-2.8.2-1.1.1.bso.noarch.rpm
Password:
242
Installing files
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Done [ ] (0%)
The following packages need to be installed:
python-dateutil-2.8.2-1.1.1.bso.noarch Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module
python3-base-3.8.18+git1-1.9.6.jolla.aarch64 Python3 Interpreter
python3-libs-3.8.18+git1-1.9.6.jolla.aarch64 Python Interpreter shared library
python3-six-1.14.0+git4-1.5.2.jolla.noarch Six is a Python 2 and 3 compatibility library
Continue with changes? [N/y] y
Testing changes
Installing files
Starting
Installing packages
Getting packages
Done
Fatal error: The file ./oss/aarch64/python3-libs-3.8.18+git1-1.9.6.jolla.aarch64.rpm was not found on the media 'https://releases.jolla.com/releases/chum/jolla/aarch64/'
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$
My guess is, that I´m either missing git and python3 , or trial doesn´t have access to it?
Again, I´m sorry if it seems like I´ve hijacked a c2 issue thread . I just thought it was silly to create a new thread , as I just wanted to ask , if , what I´m trying, is even possible, on xperia 10ii trial license.
I think those dependencies might be handled when installing applications from Storeman.
You might want to follow ohnonot cli request to provide outputs when installing Storeman Installer. Also you can provide the content of the log file I was referring to (maybe not the whole content but just the part with the last installation attempt). This should provide more context. Sadly I wont be able to help further, but I’m sure someone with better knowledge will 
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[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$ devel-su pkcon -v install-local /home/defaultuser/Downloads/harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch.rpm
Password:
14:07:37 PackageKit Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
14:07:37 PackageKit adding state 0xc08e8c0
14:07:37 PackageKit doing install files
14:07:37 PackageKit role now install-files
Installing files [ ] (0%) 14:07:37 PackageKit notify::connected
Testing changes
Completed [ ] (0%)
The following packages need to be installed:
harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch Installs Storeman for SailfishOS
Continue with changes? [N/y] y
Testing changes [ ] (0%) 14:07:48 PackageKit continuing with request 1
14:07:48 PackageKit role now install-files
Installing files
Starting
Installing packages
Done [ ] (0%) 14:07:49 PackageKit remove state 0xc08e8c0
Downloaded harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch (PK_TMP_DIR) Installs Storeman for SailfishOS
Installed harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch (PK_TMP_DIR) Installs Storeman for SailfishOS
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$ devel-su rpm -qa | grep storeman
Password:
harbour-storeman-installer-2.3.0-release10.noarch
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$ ls /usr/share/applications | grep storeman
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$ ls /usr/bin | grep storeman
harbour-storeman-installer
[defaultuser@Xperia10II ~]$
Sorry, but I was not aware of precisely what you asked for.
Cli output, I thought, was just the normal terminal output. I hope this is more usefull/detailed.