Error after installation

[lavere]

I installed FreeFileSync following a guide listed on line (can't show the link because it's my first post).

When I start the app, I get this error:
Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

Any ideas?

[lavere]

Also, when I attempt closing the pgm, I get this:
Cannot write file "/opt/FreeFileSync/GlobalSettings.xml".

Error Code 13: Permission denied [open]

[lavere]

Now that I've posted more than once, here is the link:
https://tutorialforlinux.com/2017/12/17/how-to-install-freefilesync-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-gnulinux/

[tohelpanother]

Also, when I attempt closing the pgm, I get this:
Cannot write file "/opt/FreeFileSync/GlobalSettings.xml".

Error Code 13: Permission denied [open]

Whether or not 100% relevant or 100% correct procedure I ran into the "GlobalSettings" "Permission denied" error too after extracting the tar (running Ubuntu 16.04 and FFS 10.5).

NB I have done this before setting up a short-cut icon elsewhere so I will be running FreeFileSync (directly) from the install location which for me is /opt

What I did first was to give FreeFileSync the ability to create it's settings file so I ran it as root (only once):
gksu /opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync

This allowed the file to be created. But the file still has root set as owner so next time we run FFS without root privileges we will have the same problems.

So we first navigate to the file:
cd /opt/FreeFileSync
and then run:
sudo chown $USER:$USER GlobalSettings.xml

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update, extra added:
Before using the program for the first time I anticipated it will want to create the Logs dir so I went ahead and...

sudo mkdir /opt/FreeFileSync/Logs
sudo chown $USER:$USER /opt/FreeFileSync/Logs
sudo chmod g=rwx /opt/FreeFileSync/Logs

Maybe the changing of the group permissions wasn't necessary?
I did have to do the below too...

sudo chown $USER:$USER /opt/FreeFileSync/LastRun.ffs_gui

I've since tested the program and everything functions well.
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Now FFS should be able to write settings when the program starts as normal.

Any comment or corrections are welcome...

[tohelpanother]

See viewtopic.php?t=5750#p19010 ...

The Linux package is currently always portable, because nobody complained so far. But it seems you're right and the default should be "local installation". I'll be changing that for the next version