LiveCode doesn't work on Linux (Debian Jessie)

[berserk]

Hello everyone.
I just downloaded LC 8 and installed, everything went fine.
As I open it, I choose to attend the interactive tour, but it won't display any text or nothing.
I then tried to create a new Stack, but as I try adding whatever widget to the window, nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bye, Berserk.

[Klaus]

Hi Berserk,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. Since we have a dedicated LINUX forum, I will move this thread there.
I do not use Linux, so I cannot be of any help, sorry.

3. Please add some more info:
What Linux distro are you using and what version of Livecode?


Best

Klaus

[berserk]

Hello there.
Yes, I noticed the Linux section, but the description says it's for deployment and I thought it wasn't the right section.
My distro is in the thread title (Debian Jessie) but I forgot to mention I'm using the 64 bit version.
LiveCode version is 8, freshly downloaded today.

Bye, Berserk.

[andrewferguson]

I've been running LiveCode 8 and 9 on Debian 8.7 (Jessie) for a few months now with no issues.

My specs:
Debian 8.7 64-bit
LXDE Desktop environment
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz
4 GB RAM

From the issues you are having (text and widgets not appearing), it seems that perhaps one of your system libraries is not compatible with LiveCode. You can find the exact Linux system requirements on page 3 of the LiveCode User Guide - http://livecodestatic.com/downloads/liv ... -8_1_3.pdf (this is for LC 8.1.3, see here for different versions / release notes).

Look and see if there are any differences between the LC requirements and your libraries. If not, come back here and we'll try something else.

[berserk]

As reported in the document you linked to me, if I successfully run Chrome and/or Firefox, I have all deps installed.
This is the case, as I have both.
Then, somewhere it says it needs JDK 8, I installed it, but nothing changed.
I'm running Debian Jessie 8.7 64 bit with Mate, Intel core duo quad with 8 gb RAM.

Thanks anyhow.

[FourthWorld]

JDK is only needed when building apps for Android.

To better assess the problem, is anything else not working other than the tutorial?

FWIW I use LC on Ubuntu daily, so even if we find an issue with the tutorial I'm sure we can get you up and running with LiveCode on Linux well.

[berserk]

As I said earlyer, as I create a new stack and put widgets on the sheet, nothing happens.

[berserk]

Nevermind, I were using LiveCode for evaluating purposes.
I found QtCreator is way better, I'll uninstall LC.

Bye, Berserk.

[FourthWorld]

QtCreator is a great toolkit for developing Linux apps. I have many friends in the Ubuntu community who enjoy it.

If you ever decide to give LiveCode another try, given the variety of Debian-based systems I use it on (Lubuntu, Raspian, and the last three Ubuntu LTSes along with Ubuntu Core) I'm pretty sure we could figure out what happened with the widget inclusions in your install.

[MaxV]

Hey, wait, Livecode is much better than QTcreator, use this http://www.maxvessi.net/livecode/public ... uncher.zip

Some distros, starting from version 8, need:

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export LC_ALL= LC_NUMERIC=C 
export LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1

I just uploaded version 2. In the ZIP you'll find the linux program to launch correctly livecode and the source that I used to write the launcher.

[FourthWorld]

What do those flags mean?

[MaxV]

Well, it's a solution for many browsers and softwares on linux. I just tried and works.
LC_ALL is the environment variable that overrides all the other localization settings.
LC_NUMERIC selects the numeric formatting category of the C locale

So the first command set the locale to the livecode locale. Widget are so strict that a different locales means problems.

LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE disable DRI3 (Direct rendering version 3), any value activate this flag, so 1 means nothing. It could be 2 or "hello world".

[FourthWorld]

Is there some way the need for those extra settings could be determined by the engine at startup?

[bogs]

Is there some way the need for those extra settings could be determined by the engine at startup?

Curious to know if you ever came up with an answer to that question ? Seems a test would be helpful.

[FourthWorld]

Is there some way the need for those extra settings could be determined by the engine at startup?

Curious to know if you ever came up with an answer to that question ? Seems a test would be helpful.

Yes, it would be helpful if anyone experiencing the issue could help. I run LC on Ubuntu, and although that's Debian-base LC works great on multiple machines each running a different Ubuntu version. I even have one box running Lubuntu and LC is fine there too.