Error while loading shared libraries

[JimiPedros]

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Steps to reproduce:

• clone electron quick start
• yarn
• yarn start

Result:

/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libatk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
error Command failed with exit code 127.

[ckerr]

I think this is a duplicate of #486

[genru]

if you are running on wsl system. here would help #486 (comment)

[giuliohome]

if you are running on wsl system. here would help #486 (comment)

Nope, look at my comment there instead for WSL

[ackvf]

Nope, look at my comment there instead for WSL

I confirm that installing chrome under WSL works out of the box and might be a better cross-platform solution than combining WSL with platform=win32, which, as others reported, might not even work for some.

sudo apt update
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
google-chrome --version

note: Installing from the .deb package will give dependency issues, so just run the next command, which will install the missing dependencies.

If it doesn't work after running all the commands, follow the link in the original post above for troubleshooting.

note: I didn't need to install Windows X server.