Balenaetcher not opening, Can't fully uninstall everything to reset it.

I’m On Linux MInt and I can’t flash anything because the app won’t open anymore and I can’t install/uninstall all of the files. Here is a short snippet, I would Appreciate your time.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) …
Setting up gconf-service-backend (3.2.6-7ubuntu2) …
Setting up gconf2 (3.2.6-7ubuntu2) …
Setting up balena-etcher-electron (1.7.9) …
chmod: cannot access ‘/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox’: No such file or directory

Hello there,

Thanks for the feedback.
I think you are with version 1.7.9, that is the latest in our apt repo. That version does not have the fix for this issue v1.7.9 regression on debian installation directory · Issue #3771 · balena-io/etcher · GitHub. (manually running the left out steps etcher/after-install.tpl at master · balena-io/etcher · GitHub could also work)

Can you try installing directly dpkg -i balena-etcher_1.10.6_amd64.deba version from our fresher github releases like

As soon as we can confirm the fresh version solves more issues than causes we will update the apt repo.

I hope this unblocks your work.
Peter