cli resolve symlinks /opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron

• Etcher version: 1.5.76 deb-install
• Operating system and architecture: linux mint 19.3 amd64
• Image flashed:—
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?—

the deb-file install is missing to resolve symlinks at /opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron

which leads to error-messages if using the cli:

demo@mint-19-3-cinnamon-64bit:~$ balena-etcher-electron 
/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron: line 3: /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron.bin: No such file or directory

you should resolve symlinks at the shell script wrapper - like this:

#!/bin/bash
#bugfix resolve symlinks, orcus 2020-05-01
o_p=$(readlink $BASH_SOURCE)
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]] || [[ $ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE ]]; then
  "${o_p%/*}"/balena-etcher-electron.bin "$@"
else
  "${o_p%/*}"/balena-etcher-electron.bin "$@" --no-sandbox
fi

[thundron]

@lurch can you try again now? I think I found the issue, it was a naming convention gone wrong

[orcus-de]

cool - thx for the prompt response - added it to my notes / will share it (I should probably have mentioned that I am not an real user of Balena Etcher, but noticed the issue while doing support at the #linuxmint-help irc help-channel => just sharing the observation and the underlying reason)

cheers orcus