I would like to install Anki via Flatpak in the Mageia 9 Xfce desktop version of Linux but even though the Flatpak installation steps all seem to complete without error Anki fails to run. To begin I followed the instructions here to install Flatpak and here to install Anki At a command line I used…

Mageia has it’s own version of Flatpak from which I have successfully installed Anki, see Flatpak Mageia wiki Best regards

Official download only: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Anything else can be reported to their maintainers For Flatpak: https://github.com/flathub/net.ankiweb.Anki/issues Compiled builds of Anki are available on https://apps.ankiweb.net . Most of the necessary libraries are included, and Anki has been …

Thank you for your response and I will report the Flatpak problems to the Mageia maintainers. My reason for trying to install via Flatpak was that when I installed the compiled Anki the errors below were generated: Qt warning: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb…

Thank you for your response. The output from using QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 anki at a command line is in the uploaded file. The overall conclusion seemed to be that Anki failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. However, none of the listed plugins seem to be available via the M…

I uploaded QT_debug.pdf but something seemed to have gone wrong with the upload in my previous post QT_debug.pdf (20.1 KB)

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NameLessGO April 17, 2026, 8:41pm 4

Your glibc version is fine, based on distrowatch, mangeia 4 has glibc 2.36 which Anki requires since 25.07

See and try:

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