Solving Slack segfault on kali linux 2018.4

Environment

• OS: Kali linux 2018.4
• Slack: Slack desktop 3.3.3

Problem

Without any additional settings, we can’t launch Slack desktop on kali linux 2018.04 due to segfault.

Solution

1. Downloading Slack desktop (Beta)

From this web site, we can download slack desktop 3.3.3.

2. Install Slack desktop

With the following command, we can install the Slack desktop.

dpkg -i slack-desktop-3.3.3-amd64.deb

3. Segfault

As we can see, when we launch, Slack desktop was terminated with segmentation fault.

4. This is because Slack desktop is using older version of libnode.so

we can find other libnode.so with following commands.

updatedb
locate libnode

5. By having a symlink, we can use different libnode.so and we can lanuch the Slack desktop.

mv /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so.old
ln -s /usr/share/skypeforlinux/libnode.so /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so