Arcanemagus
commented
5 years ago It seems that Atom 1.38 (which runs on Electron 2.x) needs an additional dependency to be installed which isn't available on the Ubuntu 16 image.
Interesting, I actually added libgconf-2-4 (>= 3.2.5) | libgconf2-4 as a package dependency to Atom in https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/19358, however shortly after that the Electron 3 PR was merged which means that dependency can be removed again since it is only required for Electron 2.
nathansobo
Refs https://github.com/atom/ci/issues/93
We recently switched from Travis to Azure Pipelines for our Atom Linux artifacts, and as an unexpected consequence, package builds that rely on Atom started failing with the following error installing the Atom package:
On Travis, we were building Atom on Ubuntu 14. On Azure Pipelines, we're using Ubuntu 16, and it seems that packages built on Ubuntu 16 trigger this error on Ubuntu 14, which is the version currently used on our package builds as well. Seeing as how Ubuntu 14 has reached "end of standard support", I think it makes sense to upgrade our packages to run on newer versions rather than try to move backwards with our main Atom build.
It seems that Atom 1.38 (which runs on Electron 2.x) needs an additional dependency to be installed which isn't available on the Ubuntu 16 image. Versions of Atom greater than 1.38 seem to build fine without that dependency, so I've added a comment on the dependency so we can remove it in the future.