Missing shared library when starting Eagle 9.3.0 on Ubuntu 18.10

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm having issues starting Eagle 9.3.0 on my laptop (OS: Ubuntu 18.10). This is the error I'm seeing:

~/Tools/eagle-9.3.0$ sudo ./eagle
./eagle: error while loading shared libraries: libSuits.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've tried searching around for libSuits.so, but I haven't been able to find the package that would install it. The closest I've found is "libsuit", so either this error is related to a typo or I've not been looking for it in the right places. I did find one other person with a similar error (see the comment made by Lucas):

https://jeffersonpalheta.wordpress.com/2017/06/11/instalar-eagle-e-criar-icone-launcher-linux/

Is this an error anyone else has come across? Is there a list of dependencies that I should have installed before running Eagle? If not, is there a workaround for this particular issue?

Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous]

If there's no obvious/known solution, I don't mind trying to use an older version of Eagle (with the hope that it doesn't have the same issue). Is there somewhere I could download a previous version of Eagle for Linux?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

The picture above is of an email I just received. Putting my issues with EAGLE aside, can you at least change your automated email rules for marking a question as answered to exclude examples where the only reply they received was from the thread starter? Alternatively, I would suggest that if those "answered" stats matter to you that much you could be a little more active on your own support forums.

[one-of-the-robs]

Re-read that email before getting all uppity about it. It doesn't say anything about a solution. And if you want people to be nice to you and answer your question, have you considered the benefits of being nice to them first?

That said, I'm pretty sure I've never received an email informing me that I have replied to a topic. Lots telling me somebody else has, and they are easily distinguished from the other emails telling me "a reply has been accepted as a solution".

To your original problem, I have no idea. I don't run Ubuntu and I forgot to check at the weekend whether my Gentoo box has libsuit installed, with or without an extra 's', without me knowing.

P.S.  It's possible I'm actually to blame for your getting that stray email, because I began to reply to your second post before deciding I didn't know enough to be helpful. The forum software may not be too reliable at ignoring deleted replies.

[Anonymous]

> "Re-read that email before getting all uppity about it. It doesn't say anything about a solution."

Fine. I re-read it, and stand by what I said before. The following...

"People in the forums recently replied to your topic."
"Did you get the answer you needed?"

...suggests that the topic received a reply by someone else than the person that started the thread. No such reply existed. If you attempted to reply, that's fine, but I was not unreasonable in requesting that automated email rules be changed to avoid false hope (could even add in an additional delay to reduce the risk of auto-triggering on a reply that is promptly deleted).

> "To your original problem, I have no idea."

That's fine. As I suggested before, I don't necessarily want to use any of the features from the latest version of EAGLE, I'd probably be fine with an older version. If there's nowhere that I can download that, I'll just carry on with KiCAD.

[Anonymous]

Same exact problem with EAGLE 9.5.2 and 9.4.2  on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.4. Any progress on this issue? (EAGLE 8.7.1 runs fine on my machine)

[jorge_garcia]

Hello @Anonymous,

I hope you're doing well. Unfortunately, nothing has been done here. We test every release of EAGLE with Ubuntu so it seems odd that you would have this issue. Granted we test with the latest long term release of Ubuntu. It's more likely that there is something unique or special about your setup.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,