Installation feedback for EAGLE 9.6.2 on Linux (Debian 11) & How to install EAGLE 6.6.0 on Debian

[Anonymous]

Hello,

for EAGLE 9.6.2 only a tar.gz-file exits for Linux: Autodesk_EAGLE_9.6.2_English_Linux_64bit.tar.gz.

I could it get working in general on debian 11, but it required some tweaks:

1) Ensure you have locale en_US.utf8. Check with

locale -a

If not, install locale en_US.utf8 using

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

2) If you unpack the tar.gz-file as root e.g. to /opt set execute permission for others, e.g.

chmod -R o+x /opt/eagle-9.6.2

3) Start eagle via

/opt/eagle-9.6.2/eagle

If you encounter the problem

symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_dri3_get_supported_modifiers

follow

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/eagle/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/symbol-l... 

i.e.

rm /opt/eagle-9.6.2/lib/libxcb*

4) Sometimes I observe a black window on startup and on later windows. In this case a retry often helps.

Summary: EAGLE 9.6.2 is not yet well integrated in Linux.

My recommendation for now is to stay with freeware version 6.6.0 light (32) bit. I got it installed on my 64 bit debian 11 as follows:

1) Add to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main multiverse

Perform:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 40976EAF437D05B5
apt update
apt install eagle

 Eagle is then available from command line and Development menu.

[Anonymous]

For EAGLE 6.6.0 light (32) bit I missed documenting the initial step to enable multiarch

dpkg --add-architecture i386 

[one-of-the-robs]

Why would you recommend v6.6.0 when the very much better v7.7.0 was available as a 64-bit with proper Linux installer?

[Anonymous]

You are right, I missed this version, since I did not know about it. But I gave it a try today and it seems to work fine. Anyway, there are some quirks during installation. So I document below what I needed to do for debian 11:

1) Download eagle-lin64-7.7.0.run from http://eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/software-versions/1 

2) chmod a+x eagle-lin64-7.7.0.run
3) sudo ./eagle-lin64-7.7.0.run

Installation is not performed, since it complains about missing libcrypto.so.1.0.0 and libssl.so.1.0.0

4) Workaround: Follow instructions from Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said on 2021-03-29 on https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/696293. You have to trick debian 11 to have this files available. The verbose way reads:

wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.19_amd64.deb
ar xvf libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.19_amd64.deb
tar xvf data.tar.xz
sudo cp ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
sudo cp ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

5) Now this works: sudo ./eagle-lin64-7.7.0.run

6) Finally, you can run /opt/eagle-7.7.0/bin/eagle

So, thanks very much for your comment. I try to use this version 7.7.0 now.

[one-of-the-robs]

Good point on those libraries. I'd forgotten that I'd "fettled" my Gentoo system (and possibly my Fedora one, too) by adding symlinks. It turns out that later versions of libssl and libcrytpo present the same API as far as Eagle is concerned, so the symlinks are all I needed. I don't know whether that works on Debian 11.

[Anonymous]

I tried that first, but it was not compatible.

So for the records:

Debian 11 comes with libssl1.1, which is not backward compatible with libssl1.0.0. CRYPTO_num_locks is an undefined symbol in 1.1. Therefore, the following solution with symlinks did not work:

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu 
sudo ln -s libcrypto.so.1.1 libcrypto.so.1.0.0
sudo ln -s libssl.so.1.1 libssl.so.1.0.0 

[one-of-the-robs]

You're right. I had mis-remembered. I didn't need to fettle the Gentoo box because there is a Gentoo ebuild for eagle 7.7.0 which has a dependency on the openssl-compat package, which means it's all part of the system and maintained by "portage" (Gentoo's counterpart for "apt")