1.8 RC3 won't run on Ubuntu 12.10

[siovene]

Hi,
I have a mint installation of Ubuntu 12.10, and I'm trying to get the latest release of PixInsight, 1.8 RC3, to run.

I've downloaded the 64bit binaries (my CPU is 64bit and so is my OS installation), but my system has missing libraries that can't find how to install:

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siovene@siovene-ThinkPad-X230:~/PixInsight/bin$ ldd PixInsight | grep "not found"
libmozjs187.so.1.0 => not found
liblcms-pxi.so => not found

The current version of libmozjs on Ubuntu 12.10 is 185, not 187. I could probably get away with a symbolic link there, as 185 and 187 sound like version numbers that might be binary compatible.

As for liblcms-pxi.so, I have found nothing. There is a liblcms1 and a liblcms2, on Ubuntu, but none of them ship a liblcms-pxi.so library.

Can anyone help out?

TIA,
Salvatore.

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Salvatore,

That happens because either:

- Your PixInsight installation lacks those shared libraries. libmozjs187 should be on the "bin/lib" installation directory and liblcms-pxi on "bin".

- Or you're trying to run the PixInsight executable directly. You must run the PixInsight.sh launcher script.

Let me know if this works.

[siovene]

Thank you Juan,
indeed I was running the executable directly, instead of the wrapper script.

It works now.

Salvatore.