Installing the KOReader flatpak on ARM

Apr 24, 2023
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Hey,
I’m trying to install the KOReader flatpak on my arm7l machine.

$ flatpak install rocks.koreader.KOReader -v
F: No installations directory in /etc/flatpak/installations.d. Skipping
F: Opening system flatpak installation at path /var/lib/flatpak
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/bjesus/.local/share/flatpak
Looking for matches…
F: Fetching summary index file for remote ‘flathub’
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summary.idx using curl
F: Received 10001 bytes
F: Loaded indexed summary file c61cf0b6918fb1b895c9c2278d6bfbb1a040176dad364c2015aafc06ef0b9c29 from cache for remote ‘flathub’
error: No remote refs found for ‘rocks.koreader.KOReader’

Initially I thought this was because it isn’t built for my architecture. The page lists aarch64, x86_64 as the supported ones. Then I noticed that other flatpaks with the same support work just fine, for example Sliderule.

Why does Sliderule work and KOReader doesn’t, if they’re both have the same architectures supported?

H

arm7 is no longer supported on flathub.

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Thanks @hub ! So is the reason one app works and the other doesn’t simply that it has arm7 support, but it’s just not listed in the page?

Is there anything I can do about it? I don’t know much about flatpaks - can I “compile” my own arm7 variant based on the flatpak “recipe” somehow?

Thank you!

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Replying to #2

Why is it not supported anymore?