Gnome software can't uninstall any software: no packages to remove

Question

I'm on ubuntu 22.04 lts and I have a problem with gnome-software 41.5 and gnome-software-plugin-flatpak, the problem is that Gnome software is able to install software and update the system but when I press the uninstall button to uninstall a software I get a message that says: "Cannot remove software: no packages to remove", and I noticed that other ubuntu derivatives that use gnome-software by default also have this problem. Is there a way to fix this and get gnome-software to work properly?

Answer 1

I just ran into this same issue with the Chirp application on PureOS. Installed fine, but cannot remove.

App is not listed from flatpak command line util, but it has an XDG icon and launches. I did a dpkg -l | grep chirp dpkg -l | grep chirp command and found that the apt package was installed. I was able to remove it with this command

sudo apt purge chirp