Tested 2 machines
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Download en update parts
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Linux Mint 22 / Fritzing 1.0.1
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Please also attach any files that help explaining this problem
As far as I know parts updates now only occur at upgrades. I expect (but haven’t tried) that parts update no longer works as it has been disabled. The current Fritizng version is 1.0.3 (but I don’t think there have been any new parts added since 1.0.1 either since no one much is submitting new parts.) The receipt for you donation for 1.0.1 has a download link in it that will let you download 1.0.3 (which will get you a parts update if there is one) without donating again (I believe the link is good for about 1 year.)
Peter
That is what it says for me as well (although I am on 1.0.3 and thus up to date.) I believe the updates are disabled in the code (but I could be wrong!) You can do a manual update by downloading the parts repo from here:
and installing it in your current parts repo (which varies depending on OS, I don’t know where the appimages store it) and then clicking on Regenerate parts database to update the parts db (which will restart Fritzing when it finishes.) I don’t think there will be a lot of updates though. The last one I know of is the new Calliope Mini V3 and it probably hasn’t been finalized yet (and likely won’t be til 1.0.4 is released) I don’t think there have been any other updates (but could be wrong!)
Peter
It seems that Fritzing cannot communicate through internet as the welcome view cannot show the blog posts and says unable to reach blog.fritzing.com.
Check that you have internet and that there are no other settings preventing Fritzing to connect (e.g., firewall or flatpack configurations)
nope, no firewall settings preventing accessing to internet.
Try going to https://fritzing.org/ with a web browser on the same machine and then click on blog and see if it comes up. Your Internet connection may be having routing problems getting to the Fritzing sites.
Peter
You may want to try reinstalling Fritzing to see if your installation has become corrupted somehow since it appears Fritzing may be having connection issues. If you are looking for a particular part, the best way to find out what is available is a google search of the form “fritzing part part_number” (where part_number is a description of the part you want preferably with model numbers.) I have published several hundred Fritzing parts but almost none of them are included in core parts (because I am typically too lazy and github challenged to submit them 
) As noted a manual update of the parts repository should get your core parts to the latest available level. I haven’t seen a parts update (other than with new releases which automatically update the parts) for at least a couple of years, I think largely because no one has submitted new parts (including me!)
Peter
i had it on two pc’s after fresh install LM22.
I already chmods 0777 on /usr/share/fritzing/parts but no luck either.
it’s not urgent (now), but thought maybe i am not the only one …
To upgrade the parts to current you need to clone the parts repo from the link above, install it in /usr/share/fritzing/parts and then regenerate the parts data base in Fritzing. That will manually bring your parts up to date (as would installing 1.0.3 which has a bunch of bug fixes.) There haven’t been any other complains of problems for a while so it doesn’t seem to be a wide spread issue.
Peter
A late thought. This open bug (scheduled for a fix in 1.0.4) may have relevance to your case as it is also on Mint linux if you haven’t seen it.
Peter
In Ubuntu 24.04 (and Mint 22) the package fritzing-parts in repository is “0.9.6~unreleased-1” also if fritzing and fritzing-data are 1.0.1.
I don’t know if this is correlated with the problem but sound strange. 
From the “in repository” I assume this isn’t a download from Fritzing.org but rather an OS specific repository (which appears to be out of date.) As well the current version is 1.0.3 which has a bunch of bug fixes and is worth updating too. The Fritzing.org downloads should have the current parts repository loaded and is probably what you should use (or ask the repository maintainer to update their repository to the correct parts version.)
Peter
Of course is the last Ubuntu repository.
I know that last release is 1.0.3, but 1.0.1 (with 0.9.6 parts) is that Ubuntu/Mint provide…
I just installed the 1.0.3 appimage on Mint 21.3 cinnamon and that works fine. There isn’t anything Fritzing can do if the Ubuntu repository is using 1.0.1 and the 0.9.6 parts update, I would guess that the repository updater missed that the parts also need to update (although it is possible that 0.9.6 was the last parts update as well, almost no one (including me!) provides many updates to core parts.) Asking for a version update to 1.0.3 and the parts from the repository maintainer would be all that you could do if you don’t want to install the appimage (it also may be in progress and just not done yet 1.0.3 is a recent release, June of 2024!) I have seen complaints before of Linux repositories with outdated parts loads in years past.
Peter
