Linux Installation Pain

You might get some troubleshooting help by using the strace command.  That should tell you what it's doing...

cd $EAGLEDIR/bin

strace ./eagle

Hi there Doug,

I dont think the package has even unpacked from the file download (eagle-lin-6.5.0.run). When allowing it to be executable and running it in shell and directly it just exits and no extraction script seems to have run. There are no files created, or no dialogue for the script as expected.

Best

J

Ooops, I obviously misunderstood... 

How comfortable are you with files and the shell under Linux?  That run file is basically just a compressed tar file embedded in a shell script.  I think the first thing to try is to specify an install directory on the command line.  Something like:

./eagle-lin-6.5.0.run eagle-6.5

Which should create a subdirectory called "eagle-6.5" in the current directory.  If that doesn't work, you can try using an editor to remove everything before and including the "__DATA__" line in the file and then use the tar command to extract the contents.  Recent systems should understand how to deal with the bzip2 compression already, so you can just use "tar xf" on the data part.  For example, if you're familiar with vi (might be installed as "vim"):

(Sorry about the table, I couldn't figure out a better way to format that.  This site sucks for inserting formatted text.)

Then you can cd into the eagle directory and down into the bin directory to see if the EAGLE program will run...

thanks for that STRACE command..it helped me with my eagle----ubuntu install problem..but still wont run..I am trying to install my eagle-4.09r2 on ubuntu 14.04...it throws error when i try to launch eagle.. shared file not found..libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2  i have located those old files on the web and have installed them where STRACE shows it was looking..still doesnt see the file..?? i'm lost..

I tried installing and running Eagle 4.09r2 on 14.04 and received the same response when trying to run it. The following package contains libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 and should work after installing it.

wget http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb

Eric

thankyou very much.. that worked great..i can now get to the

license/freeware screen..

i noticed that it has some transparency issue..its there but kinda funny..i

can see eagle if its over a dark background (like terminal)..i tried to

write a xorg.conf with the 'fix' i found at cadsoft and just about lost

everything..blank screen..reboot in recovery and just barely was able to

rename xorg.conf to something else..wow..nerves bad now..i will take a

break..

thanks again..

jack in arkansas

Turn off composting in Window Manager Tweaks.

Eric

I'm all thumbs today. That should be 'Compositing' in the Window Manager Tweaks of Settings Manager.

Eric

i dont see a windows manager or a settings manager.. i have the classic

gnome shell..got system settings>>appearance and displays..but nothing

there about windows manager..

i have dconf also.. looked there..dont see what u say to go tweak..

??

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:31 AM, cadsoftnntp <messages@element14.com>

i found something that i could make work--on ubuntuforums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=441069

so i made a eagle.sh and with what u provided me earlier and this command ,

i am happily working on my first project while on my ubuntu laptop--

thankyou sir..

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:31 AM, cadsoftnntp <messages@element14.com>