Missing some libraries in Snap package about desktop HOT 9 CLOSED

@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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@shiftkey Yes. Now it can be started normally.

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When I try to clone one repository, it indicates that libcurl.so.4 is missing:

sudo aptinstall libcurl3 fixed this.

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@showerying that's real weird - libcurl3 is actually registered as a dependency for the snap, so I'm not sure why you need to keep installing these dependencies:

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Same here. I have to manually run apt install libcurl3 to get cloning repository working.
On 1.4.2-linux1, Ubuntu 18.04.1

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@flexiondotorg any ideas why this might be occurring? They seem to be using the snap from this release, FWIW.

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I have a problem with cloning repositories too, however I get a slightly different error:

Cloning into '/home/user/Documents/GitHub/desktop'...
/snap/desktop/x1/app/resources/app/git/libexec/git-core/git-remote-https: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by /snap/desktop/x1/app/resources/app/git/libexec/git-core/git-remote-https)

This should be fixed by adding this dependency: libcurl-openssl1.0-dev (atom/github#1680)

edit: I can confirm that /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4 exists in snap version 1.4.2-linux1

> ls | grep libcurl
libcurl-gnutls.so.3
libcurl-gnutls.so.4
libcurl-gnutls.so.4.5.0
libcurl.so.4
libcurl.so.4.5.0

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@bb441db the CURL_OPENSSL_3 is a different problem - see desktop/dugite-native#109 for more details. It required a fix to the embedded Git desktop/dugite-native#129, and I'll ask people to retest this with 1.5.0 as that will contain the bump of the embedded Git package #79

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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.

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