MrPivato / EAGLE_Linux_Installer

A script that does a proper installation on Linux

EAGLE_Linux_Installer

A guide on how to install Eagle on Linux (verified on OpenSuse Tumbleweed)

The problem

There is still no proper installer provided by Autodesk for version 9.x as we knew it from earlier versions. One has to unpack a tag.gz archive and has to copy it where one pleases. From my point of view this is a non-professional way to install software as it implies issues when installing as root in /opt/ for example:

• If you do that as non-root user, there is not much to fix: After unpacking change into directory eagle-9.2.0/lib and delete all files starting with libxcb*. If the executable "eagle" in eagle-9.2.0 is started, everything should work fine (make sure this stuff is installed: libx11-xcb1, libxcb-dri2-0, libxcb-dri3-0, libxcb-glx0, libxcb-present0, libxcb-sync1, libxcb-xfixes0. see also https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/eagle-forum/can-t-run-eagle-on-debian-10-testing/td-p/8312348).

• If you want to install it as root in /opt for example, there is a lot to be fixed. Important when unpacking the tar file is the option --no-same-owner. Otherwise you get the files unpacked with the root user id 501, which is definitely no root user id. Further-on lots of file permissions are way to restrictive so that the non-root user is unable to start Eagle. I made things probably unnecessary labor-some but it finally worked and I have got no other idea how to solve the issues. I did this procedure under OpenSuse Tumbleweed: First copy the archive file in /opt . Then proceed as follows:

The solution step by step

Login as root. Observe the follwing instructions carefully in order not to mess up your machine.

Unpack the gz archive:

$ gunzip Autodesk_EAGLE_9.2.2_English_Linux_64bit.tar.gz

Unpack the tar archive:

$ tar --no-same-owner -xf Autodesk_EAGLE_9.2.2_English_Linux_64bit.tar 

Change the Eagle install directory permissions so that non-root users may enter and read it:

chmod 755 eagle-9.2.2

Change into the Eagle install directory:

cd eagle-9.2.2/

All files there must have the r (readable) flag set so that also non-root users can open and read them:

chmod -R a+r *

Change the Eagle executable so that non-root users may launch it:

chmod a+x eagle

All directories must be readable by all users. so that non-root users can change into them:

find . -type d -exec chmod a+x {} \;

Remove all files starting with 'libxcb' in the subdirectory 'lib'

rm lib/libxcb*

The remaining libraries there must be set executable for non-root users. I'm not sure if all files require this setting but this way all of them are addressed:

chmod 755 lib/*

Change permissions of Qt stuff:

chmod 755 libexec/QtWebEngineProcess

Now you can launch Eagle as non-root user. Make sure the $PATH environment variable is set properly.

The smart solution via an install script

Here is the more comfortable install script install-eagle.sh.

WARNING:

• YOU LAUNCH THIS SCRIPT ON YOUR OWN RISK !!
• You must be Root !
• Make sure you have a backup of directory /opt !!

It requires as arguments first the name of the install file and second the version number. The script will install Eagle in directory /opt !

Example on how to launch the installer:

sh install-eagle Autodesk_EAGLE_9.6.2_English_Linux_64bit.tar.gz 9.6.2

Finally set the PATH variable of your system so that all users can launch Eagle. For a system wide setting create an empty file profile.local in /etc and paste this line in it:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/eagle-9.6.2

Log off and on so that the new path setting takes effect.

Set up the desktop icon

The script install-desktop-icons does the job. It must be launched by the non-root user who wants to have the icon on her desktop. It requires as argument the Eagle version like 9.6.2 :

sh install-desktop-icons.sh 9.6.2