diff --git a/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/lammps-gui.appdata.xml b/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/lammps-gui.appdata.xml
deleted file mode 120000
index 465c532267..0000000000
--- a/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/lammps-gui.appdata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../lammps-gui.appdata.xml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/org.lammps.lammps-gui.yml b/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/org.lammps.lammps-gui.yml
index 6ae14d2b68..5c095100e4 100644
--- a/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/org.lammps.lammps-gui.yml
+++ b/tools/lammps-gui/flatpak/org.lammps.lammps-gui.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ runtime: org.kde.Platform
runtime-version: "5.15-23.08"
sdk: org.kde.Sdk
command: lammps-gui
-metadata: lammps-gui.appdata.xml
finish-args:
- --share=ipc
- --socket=fallback-x11
diff --git a/tools/lammps-gui/lammps-gui.appdata.xml b/tools/lammps-gui/lammps-gui.appdata.xml
index 4864f7284d..b4d121e13d 100644
--- a/tools/lammps-gui/lammps-gui.appdata.xml
+++ b/tools/lammps-gui/lammps-gui.appdata.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
Molecular Dynamics
Physics
Editor
+ N-body