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Lex161

Good afternoon. The program does not start after installation. It is immediately unloaded from memory. xubuntu 22.04. FreeFileSync 11.22 Linux Donate.
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bgstack15

Would you please run the program from the command line:
/path/to/FreeFileSync
And look for anything obvious in the output. It probably will not be, so next up we might want to see the output of:
strace /path/to/FreeFileSync
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Lex161

I did. It says access denied. I'm just learning Linux from scratch. What to do next?
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therube

/path/to/FreeFileSync
With "/path/to/", you are supposed to substitute the path to where ever you installed, unzip'd, tar.bz'd, or whatever'd FFS to.

So if you installed to /usr/Lex/FFS (& the "binary" is called Freefilesync.bin ?) (I have no idea about this, then presumably) you would run:
strace /usr/Lex/FFS
Appears you strace a "program" (process) & not a "directory".
So presumably it would be something like:
strace /usr/Lex/FFS/freefilesync.bin
(where freefilesync.bin is the name of the executable program [of which I am not sure of])
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Lex161

installed /path/to/FreeFileSync
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bgstack15

It appears that you have tried to run the directory, and not the program itself! Based on the paths you have described, please try to run it with this:
/path/to/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync
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Lex161

not working
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therube

Appears you need to install GTK 2.0.

small problems on fedora 34 gnome 40.1 (got it to work But )
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therube

(Maybe Download FreeFileSync
could have a link to, Which operating systems does FreeFileSync support?
with even a bit more information on other required "packages" that might be need?)
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bgstack15

For some additional context, gtk2 is the GIMP Toolkit which has moved beyond just being the graphical toolkit for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Gtk4 is actually the current version of gtk. A lot of distributions of GNU/Linux have moved to gtk3 as a preferred minimum release of gtk. It is possible to have both gtk2 and gtk3 installed. XUbuntu would have gtk3 for sure, and apparently not gtk2.

The package name appears to be "libgtk2.0-0" now. Try installing that, and/or libgtk2.0-bin.