Testing via local manifest fails due to error in loading installers index

[TomJunker]

I was planning to create some installers for software i used to use. However, i am getting errors when to read the fork's index.yml.

Starting bottles using the following command i get the following

PERSONAL_DEPENDENCIES=file:///home/MY_USERNAME/.bottles/local_installers/programs/index.yml flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles
...
20:58:39 (INFO) Using personal dependencies repository at file:///home/MY_USERNAME/.bottles/local_installers/programs/index.yml 
20:58:39 (ERROR) Could not get index for dependencies repository: (37, "Couldn't open file /home/MY_USERNAME/.bottles/local_installers/programs/index.yml/index.yml") 
20:58:39 (ERROR) Could not get index for dependencies repository 
...

Permissions have been checked but without further progress. Then i tried to read from a git repository. But even reading from the official's repo main branch results in errors:

PERSONAL_INSTALLERS=https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/tree/main flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles
...
21:02:15 (INFO) Catalog components loaded 
21:02:15 (ERROR) Cannot fetch installers repository index. 
21:02:15 (INFO) No installers found! 

PERSONAL_INSTALLERS=https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/tree/main/index.yml flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles
...
21:02:44 (INFO) Using personal installers repository at https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/tree/main/index.yml 
21:02:45 (ERROR) Could not get index for installers repository 

I am running out of options and can not see any obvious errors. Since the terminal log is limited I don't know which steps i should go to progress.

[EmilianC]

Hello, stumbled onto this while troubleshooting similar issues.

A heads up that index.yml should be omitted from PERSONAL_DEPENDENCIES. In the logs around the error it shows that it is adding this on top of the path given and you end up with it twice:
Couldn't open file /home/MY_USERNAME/.bottles/local_installers/programs/index.yml/index.yml

The file: url will work with directories too.

I had problems even with the correct path here though. What worked for me was doing it through the UI. After launching normally you can go to the hamburger menu -> Preferences -> Repositories / Installers Repository and add your path there. It should prompt to relaunch the app.

Even with the exact same path, only inputting it through the UI worked for me.

Hope this helps!