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I'm trying to install the LightTable code editor by downloading the tar file as explained in this thread. However when I try to run the executable, I'm getting the following error

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

How can we fix this? Can we install LightTable on Ubuntu using snap or apt ?

brownser
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The mentioned libgconf-2.so.4 library is contained in libgconf-2-4 package. You have to install it using

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

Then LightTable will crash with the following message:

$ ./LightTable

(LightTable:2396): Pango-ERROR **: 18:24:23.862: Harfbuzz version too old (1.0.0)


Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

So you have to use modern fully-functional alternatives as VSCodium or Atom.

N0rbert
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  • Thanks, I can confirm that this is indeed the case. I have already tried atom and VScode and I did not like both. I did not like the Pylance add on in particular in VScode, You can click on my profile and see a number of questions I have asked regarding VScode and you will know why I hate VScode. – brownser Jan 11 '22 at 16:41