installing elan for linux

Dear all,
I tried to install elan on ubuntu but it doesent install. Can you say me how to proceed?
Thank you
Anna

Are there any error messages, e.g. if you run the installer from a terminal window?

There may be an issue with permissions

Ubuntu does not have a root account by default, so you’ll have to use sudo:

open a terminal window,
cd /path/to/download/location
chmod 755 ELAN_30_linux_install.bin
sudo ./ELAN_30_linux_install.bin

thank you for your answer. I followed your instructions but (I think) the program doesn’t install. Here is the script:
Anna

towards the installer. There is a temporary workaround to fix this:
 sed -i “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” ELAN_30_linux_install.bin
Afterwards, the installation should succeed. However the same issue seems to appear in the JMF library. I’ll try to have a closer look at it.
best regards,
Dieter

before running the installer do this (on the command line):

sed -i “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” ELAN_30_linux_install.bin

Now run the installer.

After the installation, go to the directory where elan is installed and execute the following command:

sed -i “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” ELAN_3.0

Now you should be able to run elan. (We have tested this on ubuntu 6.10) Can you let us know whether this solves your problem?

Best regards,

Dieter

Hi,
I had the same problem on Ubuntu 7.04.
I applied Dieter’s suggestion from above, and that did the trick: installation worked and running Elan works as well.
Would’ve been nice if there was a ‘known issues’-link on the downloads-page and info like this would be avaiable there.
Thanks anyway for solving this.
Bas.

For the sake of completeness: this issue has been fixed in the latest release of ELAN (3.1.0)

Is there another solution to the problem at this point? I am trying to install ELAN 5.3 on LinuxMint 19 Cinnamon and not having any success with the instructions above.

Can you describe what happens on your system, what messages you get?
You’re following up on a very old thread and many things probably changed in the mean time. Your problem might not be related to the one above?

-Han