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Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by timonoko on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:28AM (#35355595)
Then community-solve this:

    $ sudo aptitude install wine-stable
--- 5 pages of useless garbage removed and then:

    62)     wine32:i386 [Not Installed]

    Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
    65)     wine64 recommends wine32 (= 3.0-1ubuntu1)

    Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 
In other word the suggested solution is: Do not install wine
Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by sergiosgc on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:38AM (#35357118)

    sergio@sergio-laptop:~ > sudo apt-get install wine
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    The following additional packages will be installed:
        fonts-liberation fonts-wine libcapi20-3 libodbc2 libosmesa6 libwine libz-mingw-w64 wine64
    Suggested packages:
        odbc-postgresql tdsodbc ttf-mscorefonts-installer q4wine winbind winetricks playonlinux wine-binfmt dosbox exe-thumbnailer | kio-extras wine64-preloader
    Recommended packages:
       wine32
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
       fonts-liberation fonts-wine libcapi20-3 libodbc2 libosmesa6 libwine libz-mingw-w64 wine wine64
    0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
    Need to get 105 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 700 MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
No need to overcomplicate things by going multi-arch.
Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by dezgeg on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:21AM (#35357700)
But do you then get Wine that is capable of running 32-bit Windows binaries? Or can Wine do it nowadays without?
Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by rascul on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:03PM (#35360930)
There's work to do that since 8.0. Current version is 8.4 but I haven't been following, don't know the status. There's a HN thread about the 8.0 release with 201 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505239

Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by timonoko on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:24AM (#35357739)
I found a better example. Only solution aptitude ever gives is not to install paprefs. Please solve that.

    $ sudo aptitude install paprefs
    Keep the following packages at their current version:
    ...
    11)     paprefs [Not Installed]                            
    ...
    Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default by sergiosgc on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:43AM (#35370193)
Don't know your install, but Debian by default uses Pipewire, not Pulseaudio. If you are using Pipewire, indeed you can't install a Pulseaudio application. That's expected.

You can replace pipewire with pulseaudio. It's doable, just not trivial enough for an HN comment. In general, you'd have to force removal of pipewire without removing all dependent packages, install pulseaudio and then have apt check that all dependencies are ok. Then, having Pulseaudio in the system, you can install paprefs, a Pulseaudio application.

As I said, it's a solid system, rather impossible to break into an unrecoverable state.