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Failing to install in Linux Mint

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2023-03-04

I’ve gone through the process in full from the official installation page, and it’s still not working.

That was an attempt at the .run file, terminal looks like it went, but nothing to actually start it from.
I then navigate to the folder it’s referencing, set it to be trusted, icon shows, but nothing happens when I double click it.

Moving on, .7z installer version.

I managed for it to do it’s thing to produce a folder, and follow the instructions as per the installation page, but when trying to launch it from there, and this is after setting it’s permissions and the rest I get the following error.

I tried using Wine with the windows/exe version of it in Wine and just get errors when it’s trying to run.

I’m not strong with Linux with software installs, it’s always been hit or miss, but I really prefer using it. I did buy a cheap windows laptop just to try out Lightburn and to make my new laser cutter actually work, but I really would rather have it working on my Linux box since that’s my daily driver along with I absolutely loath windows in any shape or form for very many reasons.

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    • Jen

      2023-03-06
      Okay. Here’s what I think is going on.

Linux Mint uses GLIBC_2.27. LightBurn requires GLIBC_2.29. libc is a very fundamental component of the system so there’s not a very safe way of simply updating this in place.

Your best option is to upgrade to the latest Mint if that’s possible for you. That should bring up to parity against the same version of Ubuntu that LightBurn is compiled for.

If for some reason upgrading is extremely difficult or otherwise not an option, you could try to compile a completely separate entire libc and companion libraries and utilities and try to use that for LightBurn. I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re not comfortable doing this or maintaining such a system as you’d not be responsible for keeping this current.

[EDIT]
One correction. Linux Mint 21.1 looks like it’s built on Ubuntu 22.04. That would put you ahead of the build system which is based on 20.04. 22.04 also works but if you want the least chance of possible incompatibilities then I’d suggest sticking with a Ubuntu 20.04 based Mint. The highest version looks like Mint 20.3.

For the record, I tested this on a Linux Mint 21.1 installation and LightBurn came up without incident using the .run .desktop icon.
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