Can not run Balena etcher

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Sparky
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Can not run Balena etcher

#1 Post by Sparky »

I downloaded it, it's an electron AppImage. It has worked out of the box on other installs, but it fails to run on MX.
I ran it from the terminal and got this. It goes into a loop, once I enter my password, it starts all over again.

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:~/Downloads/balena-etcher-electron-1.4.9-linux-x64
$ ./balena-etcher-electron-1.4.9-x86_64.AppImage
zenity, kdialog, Xdialog missing. Skipping ./bin//balena-etcher-electron.wrapper.
ready-to-show: 3753.569ms
Since it's an AppImage, aren't those things that say missing supposed to be included? Should I download them using the MX PI?
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

#2 Post by Stevo »

Well, what does

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apt policy zenity kdialog
say about those packages' status?

If you don't have either installed, try installing zenity first to see if that fixes the problem.

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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

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$ apt policy zenity kdialog
zenity:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.22.0-1+b1
  Version table:
     3.22.0-1+b1 500
        500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
N: Unable to locate package kdialog
I guess it's not installed? But isn't the purpose of AppImages to come complete, or am I thinking of Flatpaks?
Thanks, I will install it.
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

#4 Post by Sparky »

I re-installed Zenity and the same error happens.
I'll try installing the next 2, kdialog, Xdialog
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

#5 Post by Sparky »

Xdialog isn't in the MXPI.
I am still getting the same error.
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

#6 Post by Sparky »

It just goes into a loop.

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./balena-etcher-electron-1.4.9-x86_64.AppImage
ready-to-show: 3770.896ms
MX Linux Asus F552, 12GB RAM, 500GB WD SSD MX19.2
Dell Inspiron 7559 16GB RAM 1X 256GB SSD & 1TB SSD MX KDE 21.1 & Windows 11
Mini Tower PC 2X 256GB SSD MX KDE21.1

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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

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Sparky wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:29 am

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$ apt policy zenity kdialog
zenity:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.22.0-1+b1
  Version table:
     3.22.0-1+b1 500
        500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
N: Unable to locate package kdialog
I guess it's not installed? But isn't the purpose of AppImages to come complete, or am I thinking of Flatpaks?
Thanks, I will install it.
Appimages aren't 100% complete on every distro or system. It depends what the packager deemed necessary to be packed into the appimage. But if dependency X wasn't packed up and isn't natively on your system, the appimage won't work as is. It's not really a sandboxed system.

Flatpaks are fully self contained. That's why it's even larger.

I understand from dolphin that if certain flatpak apps don't work, it is possibly due to the app packager making assumptions about the usage of systemd, just like in the case of some natively installed programs.

So even though the flatpak infrastructure and packaging system doesn't need systemd, individual packages might be made a certain way.
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

#8 Post by Sparky »

Has anyone successfully ran etcher in MX?
Is there something more I can do or just move on from etcher?
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

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Sparky wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:00 pm Has anyone successfully ran etcher in MX?
Is there something more I can do or just move on from etcher?
I tried etcher and it failed (bad news)... it is easily replaced with other tools (good news). I have to say as a non-averse cli person, I'm partial to using the dd command line (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html).

As for appimages, I have posted here numerously regarding issues around appimages (there are very similar issues with regards to Snap & Flatpaks). When the complete build is made... it may or may not be complete for your environment. appimage/Snap/FlatPak do not always ship with fully functional distro components, missing components become especially noticeable if you have tweaked your environment to something fairly customized. Then as you note above... it becomes a challenge to figure out what's missing. Having said that appimage/Snap/FlatPak can be pretty good, nonetheless. A lot has to do with who did the appimage/Snap/FlatPak build and how thorough were they. :needcoffee:

As for viruses, trojans, malware, currency, etc. in appimage/Snap/FlatPak, those all are a beast of a different color. :bagoverhead:
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Re: Can not run Balena etcher

#10 Post by Stevo »

For what it's worth, it does start on my daily driver system, but I have a bazillion packages installed.

So I just tested it on a Live MX 18.1 session in Virtual Box, and it starts up there, too. It just needs zenity to display a dialog box about adding itself to the menu, but starts up the main GUI on a fresh MX 18.1 whether I have zenity installed or not.

Sparky, are you sure it's on your main desktop and not one of the others, or not hidden behind some windows?

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