Edit: I’m no longer looking for help with this. The issue seems to be with the app itself and I have submitted a bug report for the app on github.
Before you tell me I should try another n64 emulator, I have been using other emulators but I have a game that isn’t working and I’m trying to run it in other emulators.
Anyways, if I try to run simple64 through the terminal, I get the error message:
Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"
I tried to look into this and it seems that I’m supposed to install “xapp” but I’m getting the error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: xapp : Depends: libxapp1 (= 2.2.8-1) but 2.8.2+virginia is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I tried to fix it with sudo apt --fix-broken install xapp but it’s just giving me the same error message. Is there anything else I can try before I try another emulator?
The APT error is most likely a result of using PPAs - some PPA you use (probably the one with simple64) provides libxapp1 2.8, but doesn’t provide happy at all, so you end up falling back to the much older version from your distro’s repositories. But xapp needs an exact version of libxapp1, so you get this error.
That said, if the simple64 PPA doesn’t provide the xapp package, then it perhaps isn’t required and the module should be provided by libxapp1 (and the problem is something different). Or maybe it comes from a completely different PPA - I believe
apt policy libxapp1should tell you where it’s coming from.Simple64 isn’t a PPA, it’s downloaded from flathub and the github page only links to flathub. If you are seeing a PPA, it’s probably not real. Also, I’m not sure what to do with the information but that command gives me:
libxapp1: Installed: 2.8.2+virginia Candidate: 2.8.2+virginia Version table: *** 2.8.2+virginia 500 500 http://mirror.team-cymru.com/mint-packages virginia/backport amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.8-1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 PackagesIf it’s a Flatpak, then installing anything with APT shouldn’t help you at all - it is possible to build a Flatpak that accesses host libraries, but it would defeat the point of using Flatpak in the first place. So your xapp issues are moot anyway.
As to the meaning of the output of apt policy: it says that the most up to date libxapp1 is from Linux Mint repos, and that there’s also an older version in Ubuntu repos. That means that Linux Mint doesn’t provide a xapp package at all, and the only one you could install is the old one from Ubuntu (which conflicts with the newer libxapp1 from LM)
Ok but is there anything I can do to get simple64’s flatpak working or should I just move onto trying another N64 emulator?
Not really - report your issue on their issue tracker if you can and feel like spending your time on it, then move on (and maybe check back in some time). Flatpak are meant to fix dependency issues, there’s not much you can do if they got it wrong for whatever reason.
Ok, I’m actually in the process of filling out the bug report right now.
You could try to downgrade simple64 to an older version: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/tips-and-tricks.html
I might try that later, I have tried another emulator that was able to run the game I had issues with.
The command shows you have version 2.8 installed from the Mint repositories, but whatever you’re trying to install through APT wants a much lower version (it appears to want the old version that ships with Ubuntu, 2.2). The software you’re trying to apt install isn’t designed to work with the library versions Mint comes with.
That said, as others have said before, installing through APT won’t fix your Flatpak issue. Your APT problem and your Flatpak problem are completely separate. I believe there is a conflict between libxapp1 (the package Mint uses) and xapp (the package Ubuntu uses). Trying to force the Ubuntu package will break your system updates and possibly programs that worked before.
As for the warning message: it’ shouldn’t be the cause for your Flatpaks to fail entirely. The xapp library required is supposed to be included in the Flatpak application itself, so no amount of installing APT software will clear up these warnings. Luckily, many of these warning messages can be safely ignored, unless they’re printed in bold red or start with “Error:”.
If you run an Nvidia card, you may be running into a quirk of their driver. For reasons presumably only clear to Nvidia, 3D acceleration tends to die after installing a driver update, but only in some cases. If you have an Nvidia card, try rebooting, updating, and rebooting again; this tends to fix weird issues for me. On other GPU platforms you can try to do the same, but in my experience neither AMD nor Intel require these reboots to maintain functionality.