Version 9.2 no longer works on Fedora Linux

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ChillyHellion

The RPM version of FreeFileSync (listed as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) used to work on Fedora 25 up to and including FreeFileSync 9.1, but no longer launches successfully with FreeFileSync 9.2. No error dialog is generated and there's no activity upon attempted launch.
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ChillyHellion

Fedora 26 stable released today and it fixes whatever issue was preventing FreeFileSync 9.2 from launching. I am happily using FreeFileSync 9.2 on Fedora 26, thank you!
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bgstack15

I remember seeing that problem myself. It probably has to do with different library version numbers in OpenSUSE and Fedora. It is probably being compiled by Zenju on such an OpenSUSE Linux system, against specific versions of the libraries used to build. And Fedora 25 didn't ever update to those versions, because developers' focus would have been on Fedora 26 for those versions of the libraries.
If you want to try packaging it yourself, I've seen various rpm specs out there:

- https://github.com/PhantomX/chinforpms/blob/master/freefilesync/freefilesync.spec
- https://github.com/feinstaub/freefilesync-pak/blob/master/FreeFileSync.spec
- (way out of date) https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/freefilesync/blob/master/freefilesync.spec
- (disclaimer: this one's mine) https://github.com/bgstack15/freefilesync-rpm/blob/master/usr/share/freefilesync/build/freefilesync.spec