I don’t have a full installer set up yet for Linux, as it’s the OS I’m least familiar with. That said, you should be able to extract LightBurn to a folder (be sure to extract with folders enabled) and then launch either LightBurn or AppRun. You might need to “chmod +x LightBurn” (shown here: Using Lightburn with linux mint) to make it executable, and add LightBurn to the dialout permission group. (AppRun is just a shortcut to LightBurn).
If any of this trips you up, please let us know so we can further assist.
Sorry Rick, so far none of this has been helpful. I have extracted the Lightburn stuff to a folder but still no joy. I’m afraid i need more step by step help until i learn a whole lot more about Ubuntu and using the terminal. Feeling defeated
I don’t have an Ubuntu machine, so I can’t see the exact way to do it, but it should be something like rightclicking on the executable, select “properties” and then look for a checkbox that says “executable” and make sure that is checked.
Click on Permissions and make sure that Execute is enabled for Owner, Group, and Everyone. Once that is done click on AppRun and Lightburn will run. You may have to double click on Ubuntu, I am not sure as I don’t use it.
You said that this at a school, do you need to be able to run Lightburn from different user accounts?
I don’t know why your machine won’t run Lightburn. I just set up a VM with Ubuntu 18.04, installed Lightburn, and it started right up. I didn’t even have to make it executable first.
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The message your IT guy sent makes sense. Dependency hell, as it is colloquially known, is a common problem on Linux. However, you said nothing happened on the machine you are trying to run Lightburn on.
14.04 is getting long in the tooth; an upgrade is in order, but I am still going to try to get LB running on 14.04.
I can’t see the first image, I just know that sometimes dependencies can get in the way of software running on Linux. Especially when trying to run newer software on an old version of Linux.
LightBurn is built on Ubuntu 16.04, and has been tested with 18.04 as well. 14.04 is, as Isaac says, fairly old at this point, and some of the libraries used by LightBurn are newer, and might not work there.