Linux 1.9.01 Beta Released

elsandkls · August 24, 2020, 12:12pm

Lingering PNG error solution:

PNG errors - Manual install

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

*** your directory may vary

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install libtool autoconf build-essential pkg-config automake tcsh
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.54.orig.tar.xz
tar -xvf libpng_1.2.54.orig.tar.xz
cd libpng-1.2.54
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j8
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

elsandkls · August 24, 2020, 12:15pm

BadPixMap errors
Next, you are probably going to get some perms errors.
To fix the perms error that displays itself as “BadPixMap”.

sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 $pathto/$ScrivenerFolder/$ScriverFile

Example:

 sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener /home/my_user_name/Scrivener_Files/DragonDiary.scriv/DragonDiary.scrivx

That should be it. You should be up and running. If you’re not post some error messages and I’ll help ya figure it out.

github.com/unetbootin/unetbootin/issues/66 – more information about the reason for the permissions errors.

webmost · September 3, 2020, 4:55pm

Appeared to install without probs… however

will not start

exMPLE OUTPUT:

webmost@ubuntulaptop:~$ ls -al /usr/share/scrivener/scrivener.sh
ls: cannot access ‘/usr/share/scrivener/scrivener.sh’: No such file or directory

webmost@ubuntulaptop:~$ /usr/share/scrivener/bin/scrivener.sh
/usr/share/scrivener/bin/scrivener.sh: 37: exec: /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener: not found

webmost@ubuntulaptop:~$ ls -al /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 18542548 Oct 20 2015 /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener

webmost@ubuntulaptop:~$ /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener
bash: /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener: No such file or directory

webmost@ubuntulaptop:~$ sudo /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener
[sudo] password for webmost:
sudo: unable to execute /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener: No such file or directory

any clues?

FunkyStickman · November 26, 2020, 3:56pm

I got it running on Ubuntu 20.10 by going to the Ubuntu packages repo website, and downloading/installing these three packages:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb

You have to get these packages from the 16.04 repo:
packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/

nicolasstag · January 10, 2021, 4:46am

I can’t get it to work on Linux Mint 20.

I downloaded the latest deb and I can’t get it to work for the life of me – I click on the application in my start menu and it does nothing. I tinkered around with installing some of the things listed in previous replies and I can’t seem to get it to work. Is anyone else using Mint?

Bezzeb · January 12, 2021, 12:55pm

Hi, I use Scrivener every day on Linux Mint 20, and have done so on every version of Mint going back the better part of a decade. Scrivener for Linux kicks ass, but dealing with old .deb’s leads to much pain and sorrow due to “dependency hell”.

Good news for us Linux heads though: A while back, i upgraded to Mint 20.1, and of course set about reinstalling Scrivener. To my great joy, I found a wonderful human being over at WayOfLinux has created an “appimage” file which makes it vastly easier get Scrivener working. (If not familiar, “appimage” packages contain their own dependencies, so they can seamlessly run on any Linux distribution under the sun, provided appimages are supported, which with Mint and virtually all distros, has been true for years.)

Go DuckDuckGo with the keywords “scrivener appimage” and locate the WayOfLinux web page. Scroll half way down and download the appropriate version.
Decompress the archive and place the “.appimage” file in a cozy home folder location for safekeeping. (Doesn’t matter where, but it’s less messy if you don’t move the appimage file after you run it.)
Double click the appimage file. When asked something about integrating with the desktop, click okay, and it will set up a launcher menu shortcut.

Voila, bingo. Scrivener runs.

Lastly, because i don’t work with XML files, I right clicked one of my “.scrivx” files and told it to always use scrivener, and now i just double click them to launch.
4.1 (If you actually do other things with XML files on the regular, you’ll have to manually manage when to use Scrivener and when not to.)

The only quirk i notice is that after writing for 3 or 4 hours, the program gets sluggish, so i need to restart it. I’m in the habit of just closing it before i stand up for a break. That saves all edits and lets my cloud backup do its sync business. Then with fresh coffee, i double click my .scrivx file and continue. User interface stays snappy, i just make the bug into a part of my rhythm.

I do wish Lit and Late would take my Linux money. I’d click a donate link or add them to my patreon, but they don’t have either. But until then, the appimage file makes version 1.9 essentially eternal.

Good luck and happy Linux Scrivenering!
(If that isn’t a verb it should be.)

nicolasstag · January 17, 2021, 4:34pm

Bezzeb:

nicolasstag:

I can’t get it to work on Linux Mint 20.

I downloaded the latest deb and I can’t get it to work for the life of me – I click on the application in my start menu and it does nothing. I tinkered around with installing some of the things listed in previous replies and I can’t seem to get it to work. Is anyone else using Mint?

Hi, I use Scrivener every day on Linux Mint 20, and have done so on every version of Mint going back the better part of a decade. Scrivener for Linux kicks ass, but dealing with old .deb’s leads to much pain and sorrow due to “dependency hell”.

Good news for us Linux heads though: A while back, i upgraded to Mint 20.1, and of course set about reinstalling Scrivener. To my great joy, I found a wonderful human being over at WayOfLinux has created an “appimage” file which makes it vastly easier get Scrivener working. (If not familiar, “appimage” packages contain their own dependencies, so they can seamlessly run on any Linux distribution under the sun, provided appimages are supported, which with Mint and virtually all distros, has been true for years.)

Go DuckDuckGo with the keywords “scrivener appimage” and locate the WayOfLinux web page. Scroll half way down and download the appropriate version.

Decompress the archive and place the “.appimage” file in a cozy home folder location for safekeeping. (Doesn’t matter where, but it’s less messy if you don’t move the appimage file after you run it.)

Double click the appimage file. When asked something about integrating with the desktop, click okay, and it will set up a launcher menu shortcut.

Voila, bingo. Scrivener runs.

Lastly, because i don’t work with XML files, I right clicked one of my “.scrivx” files and told it to always use scrivener, and now i just double click them to launch.
4.1 (If you actually do other things with XML files on the regular, you’ll have to manually manage when to use Scrivener and when not to.)

The only quirk i notice is that after writing for 3 or 4 hours, the program gets sluggish, so i need to restart it. I’m in the habit of just closing it before i stand up for a break. That saves all edits and lets my cloud backup do its sync business. Then with fresh coffee, i double click my .scrivx file and continue. User interface stays snappy, i just make the bug into a part of my rhythm.

I do wish Lit and Late would take my Linux money. I’d click a donate link or add them to my patreon, but they don’t have either. But until then, the appimage file makes version 1.9 essentially eternal.

Good luck and happy Linux Scrivenering!
(If that isn’t a verb it should be.)

You’re my hero – this worked like a charm. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

ewong · March 30, 2021, 8:34am

Thanks for the Linux version!

I hope that one of these days, the native Linux version will return to being actively developed. In the meantime, I’m happy with Scrivener. Now what Scrivener needs is a ‘motivate-your-fingers-to-create’ mode.

Ed

Hook · June 9, 2021, 6:15pm

Just to let folks know. I recently switched from Ubuntu (many versions, finally 20.4) where I could never figure out how to get Scrivener to work to Manjaro. I found Scrivener in the AUR repository. It probably an appimage, because when I asked it to build and install, a large number of dependencies were downloaded. It installed perfectly. However, when the icon was clicked nothing would happen, With I little searching, I found I simple needed to finish the installation by executing the following command in terminal:

sudo rm /opt/scrivener/lib/libfreetype.so.6

Then it works great. I paid for the upgrade to 3 for Windows as a way to support L&L’s continuing efforts for writers, but I’m thrilled with using Scrivener 1.9.x.x on both Windows and Linux. This is fantastic. I hope it keeps working a long time.

EDIT: This is the 64 Bit version. It’s running on an old Thinkpad X230.

Zuzia · September 29, 2021, 5:16pm

I also dream about nativ after 2025 win 11 update force me to kick off windows from all my PC then i only use Linux… Photodhop, Acustica, Scrivener and much more need nativ linux versuion coz i never back to windows i not like osX and i wont have choice, but when i see 1.9 version here and scrivener 3 now i know that project die on beta… Then nativ or nothing coz wine implementation is never good idea…

anon56864026 · September 29, 2021, 6:36pm

If you have interest in a Scrivener AppImage, read the following linked thread till the end. Posts #5 and 6 have links to instruction and the 64 bit AppImage, respectively.

https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-appimage/46430

erlynorm · October 25, 2021, 3:17pm

Hi I can’t get any of the download links for 1.9.0.1 or 1.7.2.4 to download. Are they no longer working for others? Are they available at another (safe) source?
Thank you.

jillian.alberts · October 29, 2021, 2:26am

I just tried the download links at the top of this thread and they seem to be working fine for me.

erlynorm · November 1, 2021, 8:02pm

Thanks. I finally was able to download it on an android device, and then sent it to a pc. My other machines seemed not to like the links.

david62 · January 8, 2023, 8:08pm

Hi. I saw someone mention this issue before, but no answer so here I go. This Linux version seems not to be able to import documents. Is that so? Is that a workaround? thanks

abparr · August 19, 2023, 7:41pm

Yay! So glad this exists. Getting ready for a few new books with this software. I appreciate the native option.

oenanthe · January 8, 2025, 10:41pm

Hi! So I’m leaving windows behind and moving to linux now that I can game on a linux system. The bottle solution is a bit irritating; are there still people using this version around? Is it worth testing it out?

Adrlopgal · January 13, 2025, 12:34pm

Yes, I still use this version. You could use Scrivener 3 in a virtual machine or with Wine. However, for me the performance of Scrivener 3 is noticeably inferior this way, even on high-end machines.

This version, the only native Linux version so far, works well and has all the essential features for writing. Unless you need to insert images or media (web pages, etc.) in more current formats, it works fine.

Please note that the .deb version no longer works on modern systems. You must download it in Appimage (a portable Linux format):

Give it execution permissions with the right click in Properties and run it.

Regards.