- Download Franz for your distribution from MeetFranz.com
- change into the same directory as the downloaded file, then
sudo tar -xf Franz-linux-x64-0.9.10.tgz -C /opt/franz
- (optional)
wget "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/360/1*v86tTomtFZIdqzMNpvwIZw.png" -O franz-icon.png
thensudo cp franz-icon.png /opt/franz
- (optional)
sudo touch /usr/share/applications/franz.desktop
thensudo vim /usr/share/applications/franz.desktop
paste the following lines into the file, then save the file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Franz
Comment=
Exec=/opt/franz/Franz
Icon=/opt/franz/franz-icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Messaging,Internet
Installing Franz-linux-x64-4.0.4 to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS fails with core dump:
`
experimancer@linuxhost:~/Downloads/Franz-linux-x64-4.0.4$ ./Franz
auto enable launch
[18689:0108/180634:FATAL:nss_util.cc(214)] nss_error=-5925, os_error=0
#0 0x000001e04a2e
#1 0x000001e1a63b
#2 0x000001bbf8b4
#3 0x00000077e5ab
#4 0x0000007d0d7e
#5 0x00000077f944
#6 0x000003451368 atom::AtomCertVerifier::AtomCertVerifier()
#7 0x00000343d2dc atom::AtomBrowserContext::CreateCertVerifier()
#8 0x0000034d1c82 brightray::URLRequestContextGetter::GetURLRequestContext()
#9 0x000002634f2c
#10 0x0000029478c1
#11 0x000001e05716
#12 0x000001e20905
#13 0x000001e20bf8
#14 0x000001e2104b
#15 0x000001df9e59
#16 0x000001e394be
#17 0x000001e200fa
#18 0x000002667936
#19 0x000002667b3e
#20 0x000001e58b88
#21 0x000001e55113
#22 0x7fc572f426ba start_thread
#23 0x7fc56c9d082d clone
Aborted (core dumped)
`