Hi Jim,
I'm on manjaro arch here. Octaneblender needs some libs that are not in my system library path. I copied the first missing libs from other apps (libcrypto from steam install etc..). Octaneblender is ok with it except for libpng12.

Libpng12 is available as 32bit package only here on manjaro ...

mine too pls

Cheers!

The camera navigation is awful with an exported camera only. This might have something to do with a fixed target point in the scene. Choose export only inside blender, fire up octane and load the mesh. This solved the problem for me