Musescore won't activate Muse Sounds when installed on Linux via Flatpak
I'm trying to use the new Muse Hub/Muse Sounds on Linux Mint 21.1. I installed Muse Hub and all of the Muse Sounds packages, which installed into the default /srv/muse-hub/downloads/. I ran Musescore 4.0.0rc, which was already installed via Flatpak, and tried to activate Muse Sounds (View -> Playback Setup), but Muse Sounds is grayed-out and cannot be activated. I tried uninstalling everything (Musescore, Muse Hub, and Muse Sounds packages), deleting all configuration folders, reinstalling everything and trying again. Same result. I then tried the AppImage Musescore package, and it immediately found the Muse Sounds and could activate and use them. However, AppImages won't update through my OS's update system, which is important to me, as I really don't want to mess with the hassle of manually updating software packages every time there is a new release. Is there a way to get the Flatpak version to recognize the Muse Sounds packages and activate them?
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I believe that is by design
The MuseScore developers have no crontrol over whatever flatpack provides
You've been told exactly that already, see #321711: Musescore Flathub won't run
See https://musescore.org/en/node/339314#comment-1156828
You'll have to plea the Flatpak maintainers to update their package.
In reply to You'll have to plea the… by jeetee
for info, I have experienced the same thing with the Flatpak version on Linux. However, it works fine with the appImage so that's a potential workaround for you.
Does anyone know who the maintainers are and how to contact them? the "issues" section on the flatpak page links back to this forum. https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.musescore.MuseScore
Even though it may not be a MuseScore issue as such, it still reflect poorly on the project if it doesn't work on what's likely to be the most popular way to install the app.