Problems installing GiD on Linux>Ubuntu>Ubuntu 18
The GiD InstallJammer installer has problems with the 'Ubuntu 18 Gnome desktop environment', and become locked asking the install language window.
Note: once locked is possible to find the id of the locked process with something like
ps -auxw | grep gid14
and then can kill the process with
kill <pid>
To avoid GUI installer problems it is possible to run it without GUI with the flag --mode console
e.g.
./gid15.0.1-linux-x64-Install --mode console
Problems installing GiD on Linux>Ubuntu>Ubuntu old
If GiD install/.tgz does not run on some ubuntu versions perhaps you are not able to execute the installation program of GiD nor the kernel-2.6 packed (.tar.gz) version on the latest ubuntu distribution.
Check if the distribution you are using is a 64-bit one with
uname -a:
..... x86_64 ...
If you have used the Wubi installation program, by default it installs the 64-bit distribution on a machine which is able to run 64-bit applications, which are all the machines by now.
It seems that the default 64-bit installation of ubuntu (and kubuntu, xubuntu) does not include the 32-bit support to execute 32-bit applications.
The installation programs of GiD are 32-bit applications, including the 64-bit version.
As explained here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=583454 just by doing:
apt-get install ia32-libs lsb-core
(or through the synaptic package manager)
You will be able to run the 32-bit installers of GiD and the 32-bit version of GiD on the 64-bit ubuntu.
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