A user on Facebook says that after installing Ubuntu 24.04 Mate, installing Gramps fails with an orjson error.
Suggested the Flathub installer would have the 6.0.3 but the 24.04 probably only has 6.0.1 or 6.0.0 and lack the orjson package.
He says that he is installing 6.0.3 but that doesn’t sound right. The download page only lists the 24.10 distribution as having that newest release.
I suggest using either a Flatpak or Snap with Ubuntu 24.04. Flatpak is a better option at the moment if you want to install third-party addons that require graphviz.
All linux distributions and versions get the most recent available version of flatpaks from Flathub because the flatpaks all get run in their own sandboxed runtime environments.
That is both a benefit and drawback of flatpaks. The benefit is that flatpaks can provide a recent and working version of an app even for old distributions. The drawback is that download size and required root partition space required for flatpaks are often larger than system installed apps because an entire runtime environment independent of the OS gets installed to the root partition.
So last week, the Gramps flatpak at Flathub got updated to 6.0.3 and uses the Gnome 48 runtime, localizations, and some graphical freedesktop runtimes to work on either Wayland or X11.
Using the flatpak install command in terminal will list all shared runtimes and permissions when installing any flatpak once the flathub repo is set up or enabled on a system.
Should a “snap embeddable card” be added to the wiki’s download page?
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