Crashing on Fedora 35 Desktop

[davemacac]

Hi, been using FFS on macOS fine. Trying to move over to linux, installed FFS on Fedora 35, it opens GUI but won't resize or respond, the screen goes black a few times, then it crashes.

I can see some discussions about GTK etc.. but I've no idea what these are. I ran Terminal to install GTK2 but it made no difference.

Is there any way to get this running on Fedora? Is the Linux installer built for a different distro?

Any help appreciated. Thanks

[bgstack15]

I maintain an unofficial repository for Fedora that includes FreeFileSync. This is not the official FreeFileSync release, and it is not the donation version: bgstack15 stackrpms COPR.

In case you don't yet know how to use a copr, you can run these from a terminal, one at a time, because they will prompt the user.

sudo dnf copr enable bgstack15/stackrpms
sudo dnf install freefilesync


That dnf copr enable command basically does the same as downloading the .repo file for the exact Fedora release you want that is listed on that linked page: It downloads the .repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

[davemacac]

Thank you for explaining this, and providing a successful solution, very much appreciated.