CaveOps | Post: Cannot Install Balena Etcher on Ubuntu 24.04

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Trying to install these packages leads to the following errors:

E: Package 'gconf-service' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'gconf2' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'libgconf-2-4' has no installation candidate

Removing these packages from DEBIAN/control depends line seems to solve the problem (similar to this). gconf is deprecated, and Gnome does not use it anymore.

If you go with the updating the .deb file option:

Extract the .deb file, e.g. balena-etcher_1.19.22_amd64.deb, using the default decompress option in Nautilus.

Next, go into the folder, balena-etcher_1.19.22_amd64/DEBIAN and remove the following dependencies from the control file (you can use any editor for that):

gconf2
gconf-service
libgconf-2-4

Next repackage the folder as an installable .deb file again:

dpkg-deb --build balena-etcher_1.19.22_amd64/

And install it using:

sudo dpkg -i balena-etcher_1.19.22_amd64.deb

Then, I also experienced chrome sandbox issues which I solved in this way:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/balenaEtcher/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/balena-etcher/chrome-sandbox /opt/balenaEtcher/chrome-sandbox
sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/balena-etcher/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/lib/balena-etcher/chrome-sandbox

Verify with

ls -l /usr/lib/balena-etcher/chrome-sandbox

I opted for the symlink option as I got an warning where it was unable to find /opt/balenaEtcher/chrome-sandbox.