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Missing gconf2 dependency for Ubuntu 17.04: libgconf-2.so.4 error

See original GitHub issue

Error:

Cypress: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared \
object file: No such file or directory

Ubuntu 17.04 doesn’t ship anymore by default gconf2 (it uses dconf), so on a fresh Ubuntu 17.04 install you get this error after starting cypress

You’ll need to install the missing library:

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:14 (6 by maintainers)

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flotwigcommented, Jun 26, 2019

@oupala You can install it by installing the libgconf-2-4 package: https://packages.debian.org/search?mode=exactfilename&suite=stretch&section=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=libgconf-2.so.4

To fix this issue, perhaps we should detect if the user has missing dependencies in the CLI, and then warn them? Something like:

To run Cypress, please install missing dependencies on your system:

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4 libasound2...

…because right now, it’s not very well-documented.

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morrieinmaascommented, Jan 7, 2019

I had the same/similar issue installing cypress on Arch Linux. Installing the (deprecated) gconf package via e.g. pacman -S gconf then allows to run npm i cypress --save-dev without further warnings. Would agree with @craigiansmith

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