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Mintistall just crushes on Mint Victoria.

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the crash by launching mintinstall on Linux Mint 21.2 with version 8.2.8, then investigate why it exits after reporting only the detected architecture. Done means identifying the cause and verifying a fix for startup on the reported system.

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Description

Hi! mintinstall crushes on my machine every time i start it, and it does not write anything in console. How can i figure out what is going wrong?

OS Version: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria
Mintinstall Version: 8.2.8

$ mintinstall
MintInstall: Detected system architecture: 'x86_64'

Purging of mintinstall does not help.

Thanks!

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