Trouble with Eagle 6 on Ubuntu 10.04

On 12/13/2011 9:00 PM, Jason Webb wrote:

I downloaded the .run file from the website today for Eagle 6, but when I tried to run it, I received this error:

 

/tmp/eagle-setup.6445/eagle-6.0.0/bin/eagle: error while loading shared libraries: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

/tmp/eagle-setup.6445/eagle-6.0.0/bin/eagle: error while loading shared libraries: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

I tried to follow the advice given for 11.04 (seen here: http://www.element14.com/community/message/41329#41329/l/re-solved-problem-trying-to-install-eagle-6-over-linux-ubuntu-1110 (/message/41329#41329/l/re-solved-problem-trying-to-install-eagle-6-over-linux-ubuntu-1110)), but for me, the command "tar xf" does not work on .txz files. When I manually extracted the contents of the file and ran the doinstall.sh, but it gives me more errors (namely, could not cd to usr/lib).

 

Any specific advice for 10.04?

 

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Hi Jason,

You can grab the libraries from one of the betas, I got them from 5.91.3

and copied them into my usr/lib folder on my ubuntu 10.04 machine.

Working like a champ now.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

On 12/13/2011 9:00 PM, Jason Webb wrote:

I downloaded the .run file from the website today for Eagle 6, but when I tried to run it, I received this error:

 

/tmp/eagle-setup.6445/eagle-6.0.0/bin/eagle: error while loading shared libraries: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

/tmp/eagle-setup.6445/eagle-6.0.0/bin/eagle: error while loading shared libraries: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

I tried to follow the advice given for 11.04 (seen here: http://www.element14.com/community/message/41329#41329/l/re-solved-problem-trying-to-install-eagle-6-over-linux-ubuntu-1110 (/message/41329#41329/l/re-solved-problem-trying-to-install-eagle-6-over-linux-ubuntu-1110)), but for me, the command "tar xf" does not work on .txz files. When I manually extracted the contents of the file and ran the doinstall.sh, but it gives me more errors (namely, could not cd to usr/lib).

 

Any specific advice for 10.04?

 

>

Hi Jason,

You can grab the libraries from one of the betas, I got them from 5.91.3

and copied them into my usr/lib folder on my ubuntu 10.04 machine.

Working like a champ now.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

I'm trying to get this running on Fedora 16 & it also doesn't have libpng14.  I built the png 14 library and tried to install it, but eagle didn't find it.  I tried to find the files in the beta directory, but didn't find 5.91.3 anymore.  I'm going to keep trying things, but this is frustrating.  I understand  that the files may not be able to be included for various reasons, but it is frustrating to buy software and not get great support for installing it.  I realize that simply griping doesn't help the situation so here are some suggestions:

1. Offer instructions for the current Debian and Redhat distros (like Ubuntu & Fedora)
2. Offer pre-built binaries of the extra needed libraries for 32 & 64 bit machines so we can copy them to the right location.
3. Make the installer script pull the packages/libraries that are missing

Any type of help will be welcome.