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The APT error is most likely a result of using PPAs - some PPA you use (probably the one with simple64) provides libxapp1 2.8, but doesn't provide happy at all, so you end up falling back to the much older version from your distro's repositories. But xapp needs an exact version of libxapp1, so you get this error.
That said, if the simple64 PPA doesn't provide the xapp package, then it perhaps isn't required and the module should be provided by libxapp1 (and the problem is something different). Or maybe it comes from a completely different PPA - I believe
apt policy libxapp1
should tell you where it's coming from.Simple64 isn't a PPA, it's downloaded from flathub and the github page only links to flathub. If you are seeing a PPA, it's probably not real. Also, I'm not sure what to do with the information but that command gives me:
libxapp1: Installed: 2.8.2+virginia Candidate: 2.8.2+virginia Version table: *** 2.8.2+virginia 500 500 http://mirror.team-cymru.com/mint-packages virginia/backport amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.8-1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages