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Missing some libraries in Snap package

See original GitHub issue

Description

Version

GitHub Desktop: 1.4.2 Linux RC1

Operating system:

No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic

Steps to Reproduce

Run $ sudo snap install GitHubDesktop-linux-amd64-1.4.2-linux1.snap --dangerous --classic
Click the icon in the launcher, nothing happens
Run $ /snap/bin/desktop, output shows:

cp: ‘/home/ying/.config/user-dirs.locale’ and ‘/home/ying/.config/user-dirs.locale’ are the same file /snap/desktop/x1/app/desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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shiftkeycommented, Oct 14, 2018

@showerying thanks for the report!

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

This feels like we overlooked a dependency for the snap package, but I’m not sure why yours is the first report about it.

libgconf-2.so.4 comes from libgconf-2-4 which is available for bionic (I need to dig into how these packages map to Snap packages).

Can you try installing that manually and see if it fixes it? If so, that should be easy to publish a new update with…

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shiftkeycommented, Nov 20, 2018

I’m going to close this out because there’s a new Snap package in the store and things have changed significantly enough to revisit this. Please test out 1.5.0-linux5 and submit new issues for things that have been noticed.