Install on Opensuse Leap 42.2

[oblivion]

Hi there,

I'm trying to get the Octane Blender Version to run on Opensuse Leap 42.2 but I get some errors:

./blender: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can someone help me with this??

Best
Oblivion

[grimm]

You need to install libbz2. I'm not familiar with Opensuse but it looks like you can use Yast or zypper to install the library.

[mib2berlin]

Hi, I am running Opensuse Leap 42.2 and latest Blender for Octane run fine.
Opensuse Leap 42.2 has libbz2.so.1.0.6 and it is possible you have to make a symlink libbz2.so.1.0 link to this lib.
I cant remember if I had to do so.
Does official Blender 2.78c running on your system?

Cheers, mib

[oblivion]

hi there, thanks for your help. the official 2.78c version runs fine.

I've checked it, libbz2 is installed.

I'm not a beginner in linux, but also not a pro. And I have honestly no idea how to make a symlink?? Too complicated for me - I've only mastered the art of double-clicking so far, but in this I'm really good

I have another machine running on linux mint 18.1, installs without any issues - although octane is slower than on windows, specially the refresh of the render-viewport is much, much faster on windows 10. Have you experienced the same?

I don't know how experienced you are but would it be possible for you guys to create an AppImage version from Blender Octane??? With this I could basically run it on every distro. Krita for example offers this. Amazing stuff... Just double-clicking, as I said before

Cheers

[mib2berlin]

Hi, it is very easy to make a symlink, open terminal:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.6 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0

This create a link with the name libbz2.so.1.0 show to libbz2.so.1.0.6

If you look in to /usr/lib64 you can find several symlinks with shema:
libxyz.so. 1. 2.345
libxyz.so. 1. 2
libxyz.so. 1
the libxyz.so. 1. 2.345 is the original file the other (symlinks) shows to it.

Cheers, mib