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You need to activate contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware repos:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.listYou should have something likedeb http://URL_OF_THE_REPO DISTRIBUTION main, you need to addcontrib non-free non-free-firmwareto the end of those lines like:deb http://URL_OF_THE_REPO DISTRIBUTION main contrib non-free non-free-firmwarethen you dosudo apt updateand try installing the packages again.I don't know if I need to do that because Vulkan seems to be working now but is that correct? My sources.list file is empty and it states the wrong version of Linux mint. Should I actually edit "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list", seeing that that has the actual list of repositories?
I think those are Debian specific, Mint has Ubuntu as its base.
You're right, I don't have mint/ubuntu installed nor that kind of hardware (anymore), so I can't give precise instructions. I was just like: see that you're not missing any of these packages/repos/firmware and adapt it to your needs. I had to deal with a laptop with dual gpu (intel+amd) and it was such a pain in the ass to get it working. I think you needed to have n packages installed, add grub flags, configure X11 to use amdgpu and blacklist radeon and even when I had it working, the amd gpu was only compatible with a limited amount of vulkan instructions so I had graphical glitches and games breaking. Old dual gpu setups are just a nightmare.