itch.io Desktop App on Fedora 29

I just tried to get the itch.io desktop app running on a fresh VM of Fedora 29. I used the Fedora-Workstation-x86-64-29-1.2.iso and then ran an update to get a few patches.

Unfortunately when I downloaded the excellent itch.io app from itch.io and installed it

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chmod +x ~/Download/itch-setup && ~/Download/itch-setup

it then just refused to run… as in nothing happened.

Digging a little further itch installs itself in to

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.itch/app-24.5.0/itch

NOTE: the version number is likely to change as itch updates it’s app very regularly.

running from the command line it became clear what was wrong:

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.itch/app-25.4.0/itch: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So libXss is missing, should be easy to install, I wonder what it is? X Screen Saver… oh, OK!

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sudo yum install Xss

fixes the issue and now you can download and run Smith and Winston

Hope that helps someone out there!