Installing Anki on Linux Mint

Anki Help
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Hello. I’m running Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, and wanted to install Anki. I installed the version in Mint’s software manager, but that was outdated due to not supporting Anki’s new timezones.

I installed the current version on Anki’s website, but that requires glibc 2.36+ to run, and apparently Mint uses an older version. I looked into how to upgrade my glibc, but it turns out that is a Very Important bit of software I shouldn’t mess with.

I turned to the flatpak version, but attempting to install it threw up an error that the connection was improperly terminated when I tried to start downloading it, both via terminal and direct download of .flatpakref. I assume this is because it’s no longer being maintained, as a bit of snooping shows that it’s not actually maintained by the Anki team.

Is there a version of Anki that will run on Linux Mint, am I just missing something incredibly obvious to people who actually know what they’re doing?

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You didn’t say which version of glibc you are running. Searching the release notes for “glibc” can provide information about which versions contain glibc requirement updates:

Anki 25.07:

  • On Linux, glibc 2.36 or later is now required.

Anki 25.02:

  • Linux builds now require glibc 2.35+.

Anki 24.11:

  • The Linux package now requires glibc 2.31+ (2019 Ubuntu/Fedora, and 2021 Debian).
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Looks like Linux Mint Virginia is using glibc 2.35, according to this. I don’t know how to verify that on my own system.

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It looks like the new version, of Mint, Zena, has glibc 2.39. Would that solve my problem? Is the distrowatch site trustworthy?

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OH! Those are links. Thank you, this is my first time using this website. I’ll just download an older version of Anki, then.

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If you want 25.07 or 25.02, you should get the most recent patch release – so use these links instead.

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Yes, updating Linux Mint would fix the issue.

Linux Mint Zena (22.3) is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (codename: “Noble”), which uses glibc version 2.39

Yes!, they are accurate on displaying the package versions of distros

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