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Installing the following dependencies made it work for the user that had this problem:
sudo apt-get install -y libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libnss3 libgtk-3-dev libasound2-dev build-essential
see #1590 for the original issue this was reported to
If you are getting an OpenSSL error message at the first start up you need to install OpenSSL.
macOS:
$ brew install openssl