Webtorrent-desktop: Ubuntu version doesn't start

Created on 7 Jul 2017 · 4Comments · Source: webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop

What version of WebTorrent Desktop? (See the 'About WebTorrent' menu)
v0.18
What operating system and version?
elementaryos 0.4.1 Loki (based on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS)
What did you do?
I tried to start the application (both via the GUI or the command line via webtorrent-desktop
What did you expect to happen?
The application didn't start.
What actually happened?
From the command line I obtain that output : webtorrent-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
But the library is present on the system

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TheSirC

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@larson004 Actually, we try to detect your CPU architecture based on your browser user-agent, but it's not perfect.

feross on 19 Apr 2018

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it works fine on regular Ubuntu

sergiusens on 8 Jul 2017

It seems that choosing the wrong binary i386 instead of amd64 make it crash. In other words, choosing the 32 bits version of the package for a 64 bits processor make it bug.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

TheSirC on 10 Jul 2017

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I also faced the same issue.
Looks like https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ is serving the 32-bit version by default.