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Hi,

I've successfully installed Octane Blender on linux. Starting the octane server works without any problems, but when I want to start blender itself I get this error message:

./blender: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_thread.so.1.58.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can someone help me with this? As in the description above I'm running the latest Linux Mint version.

Another question to the developers: would it be possible to provide the linux version as flatpak (or appimage etc)? The regular version of blender is available in these formats. This would make the installation as well as running the program MUCH more easier.

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oblivion

also: what's the command line option to sign out from octane server in linux? right now I'm connected with my linux machine but I want to switch to my other computer.

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oblivion

oblivion wrote:Hi,

I've successfully installed Octane Blender on linux. Starting the octane server works without any problems, but when I want to start blender itself I get this error message:

./blender: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_thread.so.1.58.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can someone help me with this? As in the description above I'm running the latest Linux Mint version.

Another question to the developers: would it be possible to provide the linux version as flatpak (or appimage etc)? The regular version of blender is available in these formats. This would make the installation as well as running the program MUCH more easier.

best
oblivion

I have libboost_thread.so.1.60.0 installed on my Linux Mint system and Blender runs no problem. Have you updated your system recently? I'm running Linux Mint 18.2, which version are you running? I also noticed that the same version is also installed in the /usr/local/OctaneBlender/lib dir. I'm running version 3.07.t7-13.1 of the plugin as well.

Jason

oblivion wrote:also: what's the command line option to sign out from octane server in linux? right now I'm connected with my linux machine but I want to switch to my other computer.

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oblivion

This really depends on how you run the server. If you run it as a demon and put it in the background, you will need to run the ps command to find it's process id. Then you can run the command "kill {pid}" in a terminal to stop the server. If you are starting it up in a terminal with the "OctaneServer&", then in the same terminal you can type "fg" and then cntl C to stop the server. "fg" brings a background process into the foreground and then you can stop it, or finding the pid and killing it works too in this case.

I start it from a Cinnamon launcher with the "Launch in Terminal?" selected. This causes a terminal to open with OctaneServer started in it. Then when I'm done I just go to the terminal and hit cntl-C to stop the server.

Jason

hey grimm

thanks for your help. I'm running exactly the same system as you do. I've installed the dependencies, now it says this:

error while loading shared libraries: libboost_filesystem.so.1.60.0

where did you get this one from? searched the internet but didn't find anything.

man, this is so tedious... again to the developers: why don't you provide something like flatpak??

It should be included with the libboost stuff. I would double check in /lib and make sure it's there. You can always copy the libs from the /usr/local/OctaneBlender/lib dir to /lib and see if it works that way. I have them installed in both directories on my system.

Jason

Alright, that worked. Thank you

But did you also experienced a pretty sluggish viewport performance in rendered mode compared to the windows version? In Windows when rotating around an object in rendered view, octane is really super fast and updates almost immediately. In Linux there is some stuttering...

Yes, I do, even for small scenes.

Jason