[Solved] New version 2.5.0 of Heroic Games Launcher not working on Mint 19.3

[cosmiclaser]

[Solved] The new version 2.5.0 of Heroic Games Launcher was not able to launch any games on Mint 19.3
(I didn't try to install it on 20.x and 21.x)

The solution I found was to install the flatpak version and downgrade it to 2.4.3. Steps:

1) install the latest flatpak version of the Heroic Games Launcher

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flatpak install flathub com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

2) find the commit of the previous version (2.4.3)

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flatpak remote-info --log flathub com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

For 2.4.3, the commit is: 34e73847173e83e493710c429b361803d791e00dfae6d62a91d28571d4514c88

3) Downgrade to this commit:

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sudo flatpak update --commit=34e73847173e83e493710c429b361803d791e00dfae6d62a91d28571d4514c88 com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

4) prevent the app from being included in updates (either manual or automatic):

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flatpak mask com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

More info about how to downgrade a flatpak program: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/tips ... owngrading

I hope this can help anyone with the same problem!

[MiZoG]

I think it would be much simpler to just revert to 2.4.3 deb package instead.

[cosmiclaser]

I agree, but forgot to specify, unfortunately, neither .deb version (2.4.3 and 2.5.0) worked on Mint 19.3.
Only flatpak version 2.4.3 works well.