When I attempt to run Anki from the Linux terminal, I receive the response “-bash: /usr/local/bin/anki: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error”. This will occur whether I install using my distro’s package manager or by downloading first the QT5 or QT6 package and installing according to the d…

https://docs.ankiweb.net/platform/linux/installing.html#requirements

Anki Desktop will not start (Linux)

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