[chirp_users] installing flatpak on arm64 runnning debian 11.2 (bullseye)

[Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF]

Surely if it's written in Python it should run on any processor/OS  that runs Python.

> On 21/03/2022 21:52 Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:30 PM Cinaed Simson <cinaed.simson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi - I'm attempting to install
> >
> >   chirp-daily-20220308.flatpak
> >
> > on an arm64 cpu running debian 11.2. all
> >
> > First, I installed the following:
> >
> >   apt install flatpak
> >   apt install flatpak-builder
> >   apt install qt5-flatpak-platformtheme
> >
> > Second, I followed the guidelines for installing a runtime at
> >
> >    https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk
> >
> > namely,
> >
> >  flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
> >   flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk//21.08
> >   flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//21.08
> >
> > But when I attempt to install chirp-daily-20220308.flatpak
> >
> >   flatpak install ~cinaed/downloads/chirp-daily-20220308.flatpak
> >
> > I received the following error:
> >
> >   error: The application com.danplanet.chirp/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 which was not found
> >
> > The architure is arm64 (or ARM aarch64).
> >
> > Am I missing somthing?
> >
> > -- Cinaed
> >
> >
> > -- Cinaed
> 
> I'm pretty sure that CHIRP doesn't run on ARM.
> 
> Jim KC9HI
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