Hi, I have an Ubuntu Studio 16.10 64 bit and although the download and install of Scrivener 64 bit 1.9.01 went well, I can see the scrivener icon in the list of Softwares. Clicking on it does not launch Scrivener. Also upon entering the command “which scrivener” i got the location as /usr/bin/scrivener. What should I do?
Scrivener only works untill 16.04 LTS version : https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-cant-be-installed-on-ubuntu-16-10/35237/1
We have a year ton find a new solution.
Not entirely true. I have scrivener running under Ubuntu 17.04. But you have to manually install some older libraries.
Specifically
- libpng12-0:
packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd6 … 0/download - libgstreamer-0.10-0:
launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10 - libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0-dev:
launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gs … .10/+index
(trying to install the base package for gstreamer will give you the dependencies you need, download and install with sudo dpkg -i where needed).
It starts, but doesn’t close properly. Nothing is guaranteed.
Isn’t that the truth! Anyone into linux/POSIX since the beginning is used to that, though! We’d rather show up to the airport with a bag of tools & build our own airplane at the gate! 
My beefy laptop is on Ubuntu 16.04, and I run lots of win VMs, still would be nice to run natively, especially if I could share docs/books/manuscripts between them all. I own the Windows version.
Hoping this progresses, though I have to imagine there is no financial motivation to do so… 
I had a similar experience on Xubuntu & Ubuntu MATE 18.04 but managed to find the missing libraries which I have saved to my PC.
It just struck me that packaging up Scrivener as a snap or flatpak package might be the answer to missing dependencies.
Is there anyone clever enough to know how to do that?
Mr B