Missing directory in /opt during install - solved by symlink.

[dmcardlenl]

• Etcher version: 1.5.117
• Operating system and architecture: Fedora 34 x86_64
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Missing directory in /opt during install - solved by symlink. /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron points to /opt/balena-etcher-electron/balena-etcher-electron in /opt ln -s ./balenaEtcher ./balena-etcher-electron needed - or similar - YMMV.

[lurch]

See also #3486

[dmcardlenl]

Yes, I didn't think I'd be the first to encounter this...I'll look later...

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 03:13, Andrew Scheller @.***> wrote:

See also #3486 https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3486

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[Alex313031]

@lurch @dmcardlenl Yup. chmod: cannot access '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox this has been an issue for as long as I have used etcher on linux. It will still run fine without making a symlink or copying /opt/balenaEtcher to /opt/balena-etcher-electron, but it is annoying nonetheless. It is probably an artifact from the days when the .debs were called and installed to "balena-etcher-electron". With how nitpicky (a good thing) balena is about fixing little things here and there in etcher, you would think they would have resolved this a long time ago.

[bedawi]

I can confirm this error on Fedora 35 when version 1.7.3-1 is installed from RPM.

This link is broken: /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron -> /opt/balena-etcher-electron/balena-etcher-electron

To fix the problem I run:

sudo rm /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron
sudo ln -s /opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron

[raniesantos]

Also on Fedora 35, same issue. Thanks @bedawi for that quick fix.

[dfunckt]

Dupe of #3486