Opencpn does not work on Kubuntu/Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

[jjjacq]

I installed opencpn 4.8.0, following all the steps in the manual, adding the PPA repository, then doing the update then the opencpn install etc.
Everything seemed to work correctly, but when I try to run it, it fails to launch.

Launching from the command line I get the following error:

opencpn: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it seems to me a library is missing (or a symbolic link pointing to a lib with a different name maybe?)

Anyway, if anybody can help me I would appreciate it.

John

[nohal]

John...
It seems you have not installed a version built for Xenial, it would be linked correctly agains wxGTK3.

Can you post the output of

apt list|grep opencpn

?

Pavel

[jjjacq]

Hi Pavel,

Here is the output:

opencpn/xenial,now 4.8.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-doc/xenial,xenial,now 4.1.1329.1-0~wily1 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-gshhs-crude/xenial,xenial,now 2.2.4-0~utopic2 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-gshhs-full/xenial,xenial,now 2.2.4-0~utopic2 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-gshhs-high/xenial,xenial,now 2.2.4-0~utopic2 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-gshhs-intermediate/xenial,xenial,now 2.2.4-0~utopic2 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-gshhs-low/xenial,xenial,now 2.2.4-0~utopic2 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-plugin-aisradar/xenial,now 1.0.2-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-br24radar/xenial,now 3.0.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-celestial/xenial,now 2.0.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-climatology/xenial,now 1.2.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-climatology-data/xenial,xenial,now 1.0.0-0~vivid1 all [installed,automatic]
opencpn-plugin-dr/xenial,now 0.1.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-draw/xenial,now 1.4.4-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-findit/xenial 1.1001.0-0~wily1 amd64
opencpn-plugin-gradar/xenial,now 1.5.2-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-iacfleet/xenial,now 0.9.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-launcher/xenial,now 1.1.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-logbookkonni/xenial,now 1.2024-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-objsearch/xenial,now 0.7.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-ocpndebugger/xenial,now 1.2.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-otcurrent/xenial,now 1.1.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-polar/xenial,now 1.1007.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-projections/xenial,now 0.1.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-rotationctrl/xenial,now 0.1.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-route/xenial,now 1.1.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-rtlsdr/xenial,now 0.14.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-s63/xenial,now 1.6.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-sar/xenial,now 1.1.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-squiddio/xenial,now 0.7.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-statusbar/xenial,now 0.6.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-sweepplot/xenial,now 1.0.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-vdr/xenial,now 0.4.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-watchdog/xenial,now 1.9042.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-weatherfax/xenial,now 1.5001.0-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-plugin-weatherrouting/xenial,now 1.100.1-0~xenial1 amd64 [installed]
opencpn-tcdata/xenial,xenial,now 3.3.2107-0~utopic1 all [installed,automatic]

[transmitterdan]

You have a lot of plugins. Can you first install OpenCPN with only the default plugins before adding all the others? Add plugins one at a time to see which one causes trouble.

[nohal]

OK, looks good. Now let's have a look what you are actually running...
What is the output of

which opencpn

Pavel

[jjjacq]

Hi Pavel,

/usr/local/bin/opencpn

Ok, that's the problem, my path looks at /usr/local/bin/ before it looks at /usr/bin/ and there is an old opencpn from 2013 by the time stamp that I must have installed way back then, and the new one is in /usr/bin/.

Thanks, I renamed this old version opencpn.old and now it's working.

Now I can start converting all my ozyExplorer charts to the openCpn format

Thanks Pavel,

Cheers,

John