Can't run Etcher because it doesn't load an existing library

balenaEtcher
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I’m trying Etcher for the first time, with the eventual goal of repairing a broken installation of my OS (which you should keep in mind). When I attempt to execute ./balenaEtcher-1.5.80-ia32.AppImage I get error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. The file exists:

$ ll `locate libz.so`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     36 Sep 25  2017 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Sep 25  2017 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121280 Sep 25  2017 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11

I’ve checked that it should be loaded,

$ sudo cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu.conf 
# Multiarch support
/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

and I’ve also set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, even though that’s “bad”.

Any further suggestions?

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Hi there, it looks like you are on a 64bit OS, can you try balenaEtcher-1.5.80-x64.AppImage instead please?