Troubleshooting

Linux Build

Build on Fedora 23

Problem

/home/user/.cache/electron-builder/AppImage/AppImage-09-07-16-linux/xorriso: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

sudo dnf install bz2-libs
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.6 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0

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Problem

/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory

Solution

sudo dnf install glibc-devel.i686

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Solution

sudo dnf install libstdc++-devel.i686

Build on Ubuntu

Problem

fatal error: bits/c++config.h: No such file or directory

Solution

apt install g++-multilibs

Problem

error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
ln -s libreadline.so.7.0 libreadline.so.6

(see https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/993#issuecomment-291021974)

Problem

Need executable 'rpmbuild' to convert dir to rpm"

Solution

apt install alien

Debian/Ubuntu Linux error with apt-get update

Problem

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://wire-app.wire.com/linux/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386

Solution

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb https/deb [arch=amd64] https/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/wire-desktop.list"

Windows Build

Before you can build Wire for Windows, you need to install Visual Studio Community 2015 Edition. Please make sure that you have these checkmarks checked:

Using Wire Desktop With Tor

If you are running Tor on Linux and don't want Wire Desktop to automatically use the Tor proxy, please make sure you start the app with --proxy-server '', e.g.

wire-desktop --proxy-server ''