Won't start on Linux Mint 64bit

yanom0

Won't start on Linux Mint 64bit

in Integration and Hardware • 2 years ago

I recently installed the Linux Mint (64 bit) Linux distribution, and downloaded Processing for Linux, but when I try to start the Processing Development Environment, by using ./processing in the directory, I get treated to this error:

yanom@linuxmint ~/processing-1.5.1 $ Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/yanom/processing-1.5.1/java/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1803)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1699)
    at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770)
    at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1003)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1803)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1720)
    at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
    at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1028)
    at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1605)
    at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1627)
    at processing.app.Base.<clinit>(Base.java:445)
Could not find the main class: processing.app.Base. Program will exit.

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kooogy

Re: Won't start on Linux Mint 64bit

2 years ago

in a terminal run

locate libXext.so

if you have libXext.so.6.4.0 (or something) but no libXext.so.6 you can create a symbolic link (as root) from the one to the other. ditto for libXext.so

if you don't find anything then you may need to install the missing library.

i often find the less specific versions are missing.

there's another thread on the forum somewhere which solves this by reinstalling the package but the above is sufficient.

the other thing it could be is an architecture clash. the second line has i386 in the path so it might be looking for 32 bit libraries and not finding the 64 bit ones.

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