Lutris on flatpak gives warnings about Gnome 46

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I have gone from the deb package to using the flatpak, which indeed is less problems, but that isn’t 100% either. Package updates reports using unsupported runtimes, as in:

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Info: runtime org.gnome.Platform branch 46 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The GNOME 46 runtime is no longer supported as of April 17, 2025. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
Info: applications using this runtime:
   net.lutris.Lutris

Info: runtime org.gnome.Platform.Compat.i386 branch 46 is end-of-life, with reason:
   The GNOME 46 runtime is no longer supported as of April 17, 2025. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
Info: applications using this extension:
   net.lutris.Lutris

Nothing to do.

Please update it so it uses supported libraries. I would believe it’s way easier when it comes to the flatpak, and that seems to be a good reasoni to use the flatpak.

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It is strongly adviced to use Flatpak Lutris package on Debian-like distribution, and even globally.
You can ignore this info messages, it’s not very important, dev team already know about that.

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I never used a single flatpak, my lutris install is either from debian’s repo or from upstream depending on which one is more recent and I’ve never had any issues with more than 100 games in my library.

99% of problems people have with games or lutris is due to insufficient time spent (or any at all) on how proton or wine work, and necessity of up to date software and video drivers that’s related to gaming.

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Then I guess you are not running Debian stable. The problems I have run into when it comes to lutris are all about the lutris package not having the correct dependencies for Debian stable. And I thought I would get away from such problems by using the flatpak, which I did to some extent. But then, I still get warnings regarding the flatpak dependencies.

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I’m running Trixie now and latest Lutris, 0.5.19 which comes from debian’s repo.

What dependencies are these? and what issues did you have?

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To run 32 bit games you need to enable 32 bit repositories, install vulkan libs and 32 driver support if using out of tree Nvidia driver:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update

# Install Vulkan drivers
sudo apt install libvulkan1 libvulkan1:i386

# Requires contrib component
sudo apt install lutris

# To avoid audio issue
sudo apt purge qsynth

The rest is all about GPU drivers and selecting proton-ge as default runner for games.

This is all of the magic.

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I’m pretty sure that similar stuff will come again. This is what I would like to avoid by using the flatpak (which work just fine), with the exception of the warning.

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You’re making a fundamental mistake, as I’ve said in my previous post:

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And I think you are making a fundamental mistake.

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Actually sorry, you had up to date Debian back then.

Problem seems to have been in upstream package.
If I had this issue I’d install lutris from debian’s repo instead.

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@CaffeineAddict
Some Linux users don’t want to deal with missing dependencies, compiling apps or other annoying and consuming time manipulations, they just want to install an app and play, like on Windows OS. That is what Flatpak gives you: fast install and use apps on Linux.

Now I answered to @gusnan question, he/she has no issue and can ignore errors messages. This will be fixed in a future Lutris version.

I close this thread since I already answered to Gusnan questions and the subject here is not to debate about Flatpak.

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