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https://snapcraft.io/github-desktop does not work on ubuntu

See original GitHub issue

Description

Version

GitHub Desktop: latest/beta 2.1.0-linux1

Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04

Steps to Reproduce

step 1 sudo snap install --classic --beta github-desktop
step 2 try to open it and it will not open

Expected Behavior

application should open after clicking on icon

Actual Behavior

application does not open after clicking on icon

Additional Information

Logs

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:10 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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nbarschcommented, Nov 26, 2019

As a workaround USE THE PREVIOUS VERSION:

To install the previous version (which works and tested bionic ubuntu 18.04 LTS AND 19.10 eoan) and remove the version you tried to install:

cd ~
wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.0.4-linux1/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap
snap remove github-desktop
snap install GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic --dangerous

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MattiaFaillacommented, Oct 11, 2019

The problem seems to be here:

/snap/github-desktop/63/app/github-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_date_copy

The snap package seems to include libglib-2.0.so.0 version 2.48.2 but It doesn’t include libgobject-2.0.so.0 though, despite it being needed by the github-desktop executable. That library use the g_date_copy symbol that doesn’t exist in the bundled libglib-2.0.so.0.

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