Issue Details
- Number
- 24612
- Title
- [flatpak] - I cannot choose or change datadir when running from flatpak
- Description
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flatpak run org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt -choosedatadir
<!--- What behavior did you expect? -->
The -choosedatadir Should allow me to choose the datadir. But it is not. It immediately starts downloading headers from the peers.
The chooses a predefined datadir in
```
~/.var/app/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt$ ls
cache config data
```
* I am unable to modify the datadir location when I run the client using flatpak (on PopOS).
**To reproduce**
1. Install flatpak client
2. try the command
flatpak run org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt -choosedatadir
<!--- How reliably can you reproduce the issue, what are the steps to do so? -->
Everytime.
**System information**
<!-- What version of Bitcoin Core are you using, where did you get it (website, self-compiled, etc)? -->
1. PopOS, Flatpak version. Client information
```
$ flatpak run org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt -version
Bitcoin Core version v22.0.0
Copyright (C) 2009-2021 The Bitcoin Core developers
Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit
<https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software.
The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.
This is experimental software.
Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING
or <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>
```
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- URL
-
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issue/24612
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