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symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_date_copy

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Description

github desktop wont start on ubuntu 18.04

Version

GitHub Desktop: 2.1.0-linux1

Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04

Steps to Reproduce

install github desktop via snap github-desktop 2.1.0-linux1 63 beta snapcrafters classic
start github-desktop

Expected Behavior

app launches

Actual Behavior

/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

Additional Information

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State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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immackaycommented, Jul 17, 2019

If you don’t have version 62 cached, you can download it (2.0.4) from the release assets here, and install it with

snap remove github-desktop snap install GitHubDesktop-linux-2.0.4-linux1.snap --classic --dangerous

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shiftkeycommented, Jul 21, 2019

Thanks for the report and the workaround! I’m going to roll this into #163 for now as they appear to be the same root cause.

The Snapcraft docker tooling was updated recently and I opened #162 to get it back working, and I’ll investigate what’s changed later this week now that I’m back from holidays to figure out why it’s not working in some distros.