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Etcher Crashes on Launch

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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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  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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3steve3commented, Nov 29, 2018

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

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ParthOSDevcommented, Nov 25, 2018

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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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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