installation ELAN 5.3 with Ubuntu 18.4

ELAN
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Hello, I try to install Elan5.3 in Ubuntu18.4 but it doesn’t work.
I do that :
$ sed -i “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” ELAN_5-3_linux.bin
$ ./ELAN_5-3_linux.bin
$ cd ELAN_5.3
$ sed -i “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” ELAN_5.3

lien symbolique

$ sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6

remove -Djava.ext.dirs=/usr/share/elan/ext part.

lax.nl.java.option.additional=-Djava.util.logging.config.file=elanlog.properties -Djava.library.path=/HOME/ELAN_5.3/lib -Dswing.aatext=“true” -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=-1

Elan open with the first window but i can’t do anything and any file can be openned.
I see many ideas in this forum to help me but not enough.
do you know where i’m wrong ?
thanks

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when I add in elan.lax at lax.class.path : ext/nl.mpi.guk__V07.jar:

it seemns to work… I will try all projects i have on Elan to check if it’s ok

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Yes, there are a few libraries that are not found because the ext.dirs option is not supported anymore and some libraries may not be part of the (standard) JRE anymore. If something goes wrong because of missing libraries usually the log (View->View Log…) will contain a ClassNotFoundException indicating what is missing.

We just released a minor update with still the same Linux installation packaging (so it will have the same issues) but we intend to make available a variant for Linux which is compatible with Java 10 without requiring modifications and probably with a different type of installer/packaging. Hopefully within a few weeks.

-Han

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The new, alternative version is now available, named ELAN 5.4-FX. It includes a Java 11 runtime and is tested on Ubuntu 18.04.

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Great ! I will test it. Thanks