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I encountered an issue where, after a routine apt-get upgrade, slack i.e. slack-desktop refused to open, with no real indication why from the logs.

After trying most of the solutions from this older post I ended update manually downloading the deb as indicated in my answer below....

FYI version 4.27.154 caused the failure to start.

Albert Scholtz
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In my search for an older version to roll back to, I ended up scouring the flathub code for a url for downloading an older .deb and came across:

https://downloads.slack-edge.com/releases/linux/$version/prod/x64/slack-desktop-$version-amd64.deb

Replacing the $version with a version number found on the slack release notes page did the trick.

Example:

wget https://downloads.slack-edge.com/releases/linux/4.26.1/prod/x64/slack-desktop-4.26.1-amd64.deb

and then

sudo dpkg -i slack-desktop-4.26.1-amd64.deb

UPDATE: I could have probably saved a lot of trouble by following the dowgrade path for flatpak apps.

Albert Scholtz
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