VidCutter wouldn't install

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VidCutter wouldn’t install on a Linux Mint 22 computer. A couple other flatpaks installed fine. I tried to install VidCutter manually and with the .flatpakref. The install attempts didn’t generate any errors. When I tried uninstall it, it wasn’t found.

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How were these installation attempts made? Did you use the flatpak command in the terminal or the software center of Linux Mint?

If you have not used the terminal command yet, could you try the following command and post its output on error?

$ flatpak install flathub com.ozmartians.VidCutter; echo "Return Code $?"
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Prompt> $ flatpak install flathub com.ozmartians.VidCutter; echo “Return Code $?”
$: command not found
Return Code 127
Prompt>

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Linux Mint Software sees com.ozmartians.VidCutter.flatpakref and looks like it is installing it, but it doesn’t. A link for VidCutter shows up in the Cinnimon Desk Top Menu, but the link doesn’t load anything. When I use Terminal to try and uninstall VidCutter, it can’t find it.

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Remove the $ in front of the command before running it.

This symbol is sometimes used in examples for terminal commands to prefix a command run in the user shell, its not part of the command itself.

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Prompt> flatpak install flathub com.ozmartians.VidCutter
Looking for matches…
Skipping: com.ozmartians.VidCutter/x86_64/stable is already installed
Prompt> flatpak run com.ozmartians.VidCutter
Prompt> flatpak install flathub com.ozmartians.VidCutter
Looking for matches…
Skipping: com.ozmartians.VidCutter/x86_64/stable is already installed
Prompt>
Vidcutter shows up in the Mint Menu, but when I click on it nothing happens. Terminal show that it is installed, but Prompt> flatpak run com.ozmartians.VidCutter doesn’t do anything (see Terminal log above).
Thanks

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Well, then it has successfully installed. It just doesn’t launch…

Seems like its a known bug, so you should follow the progress of it:

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Thanks. I don’t see a fix or work around in the bug report. Or, I’m just not technical enough to understand it. I’ll let this go.
I found another video trimmer that works fine.
It’s LosslessCut-linux-x86_64.AppImage.
Thanks again for your help.