.deb package file is broken

Current behavior

After running

root@debian:/opt/Boost Note# chown root chrome-sandbox
root@debian:/opt/Boost Note# chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox

I receive the error

Trace/breakpoint trap

The software does not run.

Expected behavior

Boostnote should open.

Steps to reproduce

Download the .deb file from the Boostnote website
Install the .deb and dependencies with

dpkg -i boostnote.deb
apt install -f

Change ownership of chrome-sandbox as above.
Error occurs when trying to open the app via the terminal command " boostnote "
Trying to open boostnote with the application icon doesn't work either.

Environment

Version: v0.14.0-0
OS Version and name: Debian 10.1 buster

Snapcraft

P.S. I know it is not related but please consider adding this software to the Snapcraft Library to make the installation and update process MUCH easier on Linux: https://snapcraft.io/first-snap

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@pythonInRelay We are also providing AppImage. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/releases
It might be better than snapcraft. How do you think?

@Rokt33r

@Rokt33r The advantage to snap (or any package manager e.g. apt or pacman is that all packages can be updated with one command, e.g on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian you could update the entire system and all programs with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo snap refresh

Moreover, Snap will automatically put the package into a location that is in the path, whereas with a .appimage the user needs to edit there ~/.profile to add something like ~/bin to the path.

So although an app image is really convenient, snap would be even easier because users wouldn’t need to watch Github for releases.

@RyanGreenup

@RyanGreenup Okay, I'll try snap soon. Btw did you also confront this problem?

I confirmed the deb package file is broken. I'll replace its link with the AppImage link until I fix this problem

@Rokt33r

@Rokt33r I have not actually encountered this problem with v 0.1.1, although I install the new version over the old version so maybe that's why, it might be nice to give the binary a slightly different name so the old version and new version can be run concurrently.

udo dpkg -i boost-note-linux.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading boostnote from 0.14.0-0-1 to 0.1.1
(Reading database ... 853268 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack boost-note-linux.deb ...
Unpacking boostnote (0.1.1) over (0.14.0-0-1) ...
Setting up boostnote (0.1.1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.63ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

@RyanGreenup

@RyanGreenup I'll change the name in this month. Until I change it, please use AppImage one.

@RyanGreenup

@RyanGreenup #319 Please follow this issue. I'll try to resolve in this week.

@RyanGreenup

@RyanGreenup @pythonInRelay
Both of your issues should be fixed in v0.2.1. Please try it and reopen the issue if the problem still exist.
https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/releases/tag/v0.2.1

Sadly this issue still occurs, at least for me on Debian. However, this is not unique to the .deb package; the AppImage does not work either.

@philippludwig

@philippludwig What OS are you running on?

@ZurMaD Thanks for the comment. Apparently we can set the argument by default. I'll try to apply it from the next version. electron-userland/electron-builder#4364

had the same problem with latest deb package on debian buster
--no-sandbox flag helped to get app running.
thx

Is there anyone able to try the steps below? I don't have a device using Debian so it is a bit difficult for me to test the solution.

set ["--no-sandbox"] to "build.linux.executableArgs" of package.json

  "linux": {
    "icon": "static/icon.icns",
    "target": [
      "deb",
      "rpm",
      "AppImage"
    ],
    // Add the below
    "executableArgs": [
      "--no-sandbox"
    ]
  },

Add .env file

NODE_ENV=production
BOOST_HUB_BASE_URL=https://boostnote.io

Run these script

npm run build:electron
npm run pack

Test .deb and .AppImage files in dist directory

@Rokt33r

@Rokt33r I tried with my Debian box, currently with Debian 10.9.
It seems that the additional argments of "--no-sandbox" in the package.json file does not resolve the problem.
When I tried to run the generated boost-note-linux.AppImage, I got following messages

[16145:0907/093219.679087:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_boost-yPAGMj/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

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Opened PR #1689 to apply the Linux no-sandbox launch flag both in package launcher metadata and in the packaged Electron main process: #1689

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