MX Package Installer/Flatpak [Solved]

[User4844]

Hi there.
First off. What a beautiful OS. Thank you.
I have installed MX Linux 21 on a Sony Vaio 32 Bit machine, with Centrino 2 and ATI Radeon Graphics, 4GB ram and 500 GB rom. For the most part, I have not had any issues. Most items are running smoothly.
I'm having an issue with flatpaks in the MX package installer. I have installed flatpack via the stable repo tab. In the terminal the flatpak version is showing as 1.10.7. However, when I go to the flatpak tab within MX PI, nothing loads. I have spent too much time now searching online for a solution, so, here I am .

Any thoughts or assistance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

[Eadwine Rose]

Can you post your quick system info please? Thanks!

[User4844]

Sony Vaio 32 Bit machine, with Centrino 2 and ATI Radeon Graphics, 4GB ram and 500 GB rom

[Eadwine Rose]

That isn't it

Please run quick system info from the menu and paste it in a reply.

[User4844]

Whoops! :-)

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-17-686-pae [5.10.136-1] i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-17-686-pae 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           init=/lib/systemd/systemd 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel, vala-panel, plank 
           wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.1_386 Wildflower April 9  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VGN-FW21M v: C60127QQ serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: R1090Y0 
           date: 07/25/2008 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 50.9/54.8 Wh (92.7%) volts: N/A 
           min: 124.4 model: Sony Corp. type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn family: 6 
           model-id: 17 (23) stepping: 6 microcode: 60F cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 bogomips: 9572 
           Speed: 2464 MHz min/max: 800/2401 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2464 2: 2321 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470] vendor: Sony driver: radeon 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:95c4 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Ricoh Sony Vaio Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-2:2 
           chip-ID: 05ca:183d class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: compton v: 1 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.7x9.4") 
           s-diag: 485mm (19.1") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS res: 1600x900 hz: 60 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV620 (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-17-686-pae LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Sony driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD RV620 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3450/3470/3550/3570] vendor: Sony 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aa28 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-17-686-pae running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl port: d000 
           bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4232 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Sony driver: sky2 v: 1.30 
           port: 9000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4363 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 372.61 GiB used: 17.97 GiB (4.8%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Fujitsu model: MHZ2400BT G1 size: 372.61 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 1.5 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 000C scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 366.73 GiB size: 359.91 GiB (98.14%) used: 17.97 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.87 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: 49.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2418 lib: 1243 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 209 Uptime: 52m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.84 GiB used: 1.16 GiB (30.1%) 
           Init: systemd v: 247 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

[j2mcgreg]

You've got a 64 bit processor, so why are you running the 32 bit version of MX 21?

[User4844]

That's an excellent question.

When I checked the windows system prior to downloading MX, it stated 4 gb ram and 32 bit cpu. I have just checked the specs on the sony website and I am now even more confused.

I took this from Sony https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/supp ... ifications

CPU Section

Frontside Bus (MHz)

1066
Number of Cores

2
Processor Name

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P8600 with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology
Processor Speed (GHz)

2.4
Processor Manufacturer

Intel®
L2 Cache (MB)

3

Memory

Memory Type

DDR2 SDRAM (2x2GB)
Max. Supported Memory (GB)

4
Memory Size (GB)

4
Max Memory Comment

In the case of 4GB, a portion of the system memory over 3GB might not be available to the 32bit operating system
Memory Speed (MHz)

800

[Duliwi]

over 3GB might not be available to the 32bit operating system
Memory Speed (MHz)

As you have a 64 bit hardware system, you can install both an 32bit OS or 64bit OS.
But this means, if you install a 32 bit system like Windows (32bit), then you only can use 3GB of your 4GB RAM. But if you install a 64bit system (for example Windows 10 64bit), then you can use your full 4 GB.

[dolphin_oracle]

I'm not sure that there actually are 32 bit flatpaks on flathub.

you can check with

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flatpak remote-ls

which should list all available packages from flathub

[User4844]

That explains everything. It's embarrassing being a newbie. :-) Apart from a plethora of nvidia flatpaks, there are no other 32 bit flatpaks.

Thank you all! It appears that I will be installing the 64 bit version of MX.

Thank you for your help. You rock!