Etcher: Etcher Crashes on Launch

[3steve3]

1.4.8
Ubuntu 18.10 64-bit minimal installation
Using .appimage

Whenever I try to open Etcher, I get this error:
/tmp/.mount_NshRWX/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[ParthOSDev]

Hi,

I suppose you should try sudo apt-get install -y libgconf-2-4 and then try running Etcher again. It solved my problem!

Regards,
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From: steve018 [e-mail]
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 8:07 PM
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Subject: [balena-io/etcher] Etcher Crashes on Launch (#2555)

1.4.8
Ubuntu 18.10 64-bit minimal installation
Using .appimage

Whenever I try to open Etcher, I get this error:
/tmp/.mount_NshRWX/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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[3steve3]

That did not fix the issue for me.

[ParthOSDev]

Maybe a reinstall? Delete it and try again, if it does not work, I am sorry but I cannot help then.

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From: steve018 [e-mail]
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That did not fix the issue for me.

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[thundron]

It's strange though, we ship the AppImage with all the needed libraries, including libgconf-2-4.
We'll investigate further

[ParthOSDev]

Well it’s not my issue, it is Steve’s and it fixed my problem.

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From: Lorenzo Alberto Maria Ambrosi [e-mail]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 7:19:21 PM
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It's strange though, we ship the AppImage with all the needed libraries, including libgconf-2-4.
Did you try installing that @ParthOSDevhttps://github.com/ParthOSDev ?

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[thundron]

@steve018 Could you please try installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 and try running etcher again? It is shipped with the AppImage like the other dependencies, but some users still have issues with them on newer Ubuntu versions

[mbt45]

I got the same issue since Mojave. Crash at launch

[thundron]

@mbt45 That doesn't sound related to this issue though (this is specific to ubuntu), you can search your error in the other issues and/or open a new one if you can't find it :)

[3steve3]

@ParthOSDev @thundron
The issue was resolved with a sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4 libgtk2.0-common

[lurch]

See also https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/docs/USER-DOCUMENTATION.md#runtime-gnulinux-dependencies