Installing Flatpak on Debian WSL Windows 11

Feb 26, 2022 Closed
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#1

I running Windows 11 and have installed WSL2 and Debian. The instructions for installing flatpak that I am following are at Flatpak—the future of application distribution. The command this page shows is “apt install flatpak”, run as root. The challenge is that this command does not work. When I enter this command Debian returns:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package flatpak

Can someone help me with the correct? Have the flatpak folks moved this file elsewhere?

Thanks
Abe

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#2

Have you run apt update to refresh the local copy of the package list?

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#3
Replying to #2

Yes, to no avail. I have even tried to run “apt install flatpak” as root and get the same error message.

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#4
Replying to #3

Which branch of Debian are you using?

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#5

What is a branch? I have no idea how to find that out.