It did help, Kona, thanks, but it didn’t go all the way. One has to reinstall the deb file with the parameter --force-architecture. See other posts in this forum.
I’d like to add my notes for getting a complete (for my purposes) install of Scrivener on 64-bit Linux.
bash$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
bash$ uname -r -m
3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
A. Kindlegen
Download the utility from http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211 (the 32-bit version for 2.x kernels is fine).
Unpack the tarball and copy the utility wherever you like, but make sure it is named kindlegen.bin instead of kindlegen (the Scrivener File-Select dialog box has a mask that requires a file extension). It is convenient to make a symlink named ‘kindlegen’ for Linux-specific applications that might use this.
cd /tmp
tar -zxf ~/downloads/kindlegen_linux_2.6_i386_v2_9.tar.gz
sudo cp kindlegen/kindlegen /usr/local/bin/kindlegen.bin
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/kindlegen.bin /usr/local/bin/kindlegen
B. Multimarkdown
Attempting to compile a Multimarkdown document results in an error message stating that the multimarkdown utility is not installed, and that you should run
sudo apt-get install libtext-multimarkdown-perl
in order to install it.
This multimarkdown utility, however, is incompatible with the command-line invocation performed by Scrivener. You will get an error dialog saying “Unknown error”, and the following message on the command line (you did run Scrivener from the command line for debugging purposes, didn’t you?) :
The fix? Uninstall the libtext-multimarkdown-perl package (if you indeed installed it), and instead install the multimarkdown utility from https://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown . This utility supports the options that Scrivener expects.
The commands (run in your home directory):
git clone git://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown.git
cd peg-multimarkdown
./update_submodules.sh
git submodule update
make
sudo cp multimarkdown /usr/local/bin
cd ..
rm -r peg-multimarkdown
Assuming you have git installed, this should “just work”: Latex files can now be generated.
C. GNOME-Keyring
On LTS systems (such as mine), the following error message may appear on the console when Scrivener starts up:
This is a fairly harmless message, and most users can ignore it. To get rid of the message, download the 32-bit package for gnome-keyring, unpack it, and copy the missing library to the expected location.
The 32-bit .deb package for gnome-keyring can be downloaded from the Ubuntu repositories at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/i386/gnome-keyring/3.2.2-2ubuntu4.1 .
cd /tmp
mkdir gnome-keyring
cd gnome-keyring
dpkg -x ~/downloads/gnome-keyring_3.2.2-2ubuntu4.1_i386.deb .
sudo cp -r usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/ /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
cd ..
rm -r gnome-keyring
Note that this is a brute-force installation of the library, and does not perform any of the apt or dpkg dependency checks (which fail due to an “uninstallable” libgcr-3-common:i386 package). It seems to work fine at runtime.
D. Spelling
A local copy of a 32-bit aspell can be installed in the LiteratureAndLatte directory tree, and configured to run locally.
Download the .deb files for the following packages:
aspell:i386 http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/aspell/download
libaspell15:i386 http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libaspell15/download
- Unpack aspell and libaspell15.
cd /tmp
mkdir aspell libaspell
dpkg -x ~downloads/aspell*_i386.deb aspell
dpkg -x ~downloads/libaspell15*_i386.deb libaspell- Seed the lib/aspell directory with a copy of the one in /usr/lib/aspell
sudo cp -r /usr/lib/aspell /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib- Copy aspell and libaspell into the LiteratureAndLatte directory tree.
sudo cp -i aspell/usr/bin/* /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/bin/
sudo cp -r libaspell/usr/lib/aspell/* /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/aspell/
sudo cp libaspell/usr/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 libaspell/usr/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib- Create symlinks so all the tools work properly
sudo ln -s /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libaspell.so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libaspell.so.15
sudo ln -s /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaspell.so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libpspell.so
sudo ln -s /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libpspell.so.15
sudo ln -s /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpspell.so- Build 32-bit versions of the dictionaries in the LiteratureAndLatte directory tree.
a) replace symlinks with actual dictionary files
sudo rm /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/aspell/*.rws
sudo cp /var/lib/aspell/*.rws /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib/aspell/b) Create a shell script to rebuild the dictionaries using the 32-bit aspell install
echo '#!/bin/sh' > /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo "ASPELL_CONF='prefix /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte'" >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo 'PATH="/usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/bin:$PATH"' >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo export PATH ASPELL_CONF >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
chmod +x /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
sudo /usr/sbin/aspell-autobuildhash --dry-run --force 2>&1 | grep zcat | sed -e 's/var\/lib/usr\/local\/LiteratureAndLatte\/lib/' -e 's/usr\/lib/usr\/local\/LiteratureAndLatte\/lib/' >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.shNOTE: This last command is very important to get right. I have created a pastebin for the command so that you can be sure to copy and paste it correctly: http://pastebin.com/JFGjnsjT.
An example shell script, for non-Ubuntu users, is available here: http://pastebin.com/sXbTTwAq . Be sure to modify it to suit your local system.
c) Execute the shell script as root
sudo bash /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh- Remove the downloaded files.
cd /tmp
rm -r aspell ispell
rm ~/downloads/libaspell*_i386.deb ~/downloads/aspell*_i386.deb- Create a shell script for launching Scrivener with the aspell options set correctly.
echo '#!/bin/sh' > /tmp/scrivener.64
echo "ASPELL_CONF='prefix /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte'" 'PATH="/usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/bin:$PATH"' 'scrivener &' >> /tmp/scrivener.64
chmod +x /tmp/scrivener.64
sudo cp /tmp/scrivener.64 /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/bin/- Enjoy!
/usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/bin/scrivener.64The commandline-averse among you may want to create a .desktop file for this.
UPDATE: I realized I was working off a tarball of Scrivener, and installed the .deb package. This includes the file /usr/share/scrivener/bin/scrivener.sh , which is a much better startup script than I provided in step 7. The above steps can be applied to /usr/share/scrivener instead of /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte , and the scrivener.sh script modified as follows:
bindir=`dirname "$me"`
libdir=`cd "$bindir/../lib" ; pwd`
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$libdir
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# ======================================
# Add these three lines here:
basedir=`cd "$bindir/.." ; pwd`
ASPELL_CONF="prefix $basedir"
export ASPELL_CONF
# ======================================
unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH
exec "$bindir/Scrivener" ${1+"$@"} OLD, DANGEROUS, BRUTE-FORCE METHOD (retained for posterity)
[i]
The following code will replace the 64-bit aspell .so files and binaries with 32-bit ones, and rebuild the system dictionaries to be 64-bit – without removing the 64-bit aspell dependency from the package manager.
After making these changes, a 32-bit installation of Scrivener will have a working aspell-based spellchecker on a 64-bit system. A handful of 64-bit applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, Opera) have been tested, and (unexpectedly) continue to work fine after these changes.
WARNING These changes will make your system non-standard, may break spell-checking in some 64-bit applications, and may be overwritten during a system upgrade. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Download the .deb files for the following packages:
aspell:i386 http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/aspell/download
aspell-en:all http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/aspell-en
libaspell15:i386 http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libaspell15/download
- Unpack aspell and libaspell15.
cd /tmp
mkdir aspell libaspell
dpkg -x ~downloads/aspell*_i386.deb aspell
dpkg -x ~downloads/libaspell15*_i386.deb libaspell- Copy libaspell into the system 32-bit library location.
sudo cp usr/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaspell.so.15
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaspell.so
sudo cp usr/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpspell.so.15
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpspell.so- Replace the support binaries in /usr/lib/aspell with 32-bit versions
sudo cp -r libaspell/usr/lib/aspell /usr/lib/aspell.orig
sudo cp -r libaspell/usr/lib/aspell/*.so /usr/lib/aspell/
sudo cp -r libaspell/usr/lib/aspell/*spell /usr/lib/aspell/- Replace the executables in /usr/bin with 32-bit versions (optional).
sudo mv /usr/bin/aspell /usr/bin/aspell.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/aspell-import /usr/bin/aspell-import.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/precat /usr/bin/precat.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/prezip /usr/bin/prezip.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/preunzip /usr/bin/preunzip.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/prezip-bin /usr/bin/prezip-bin.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/run-with-aspell /usr/bin/run-with-aspell.orig
sudo mv /usr/bin/word-list-compress /usr/bin/word-list-compress.orig
sudo cp aspell/usr/bin/* /usr/bin/- Reinstall the dictionaries. This will build 32-bit dictionaries (readable by 64-bit aspell libraries as well, as per http://aspell.net/0.61/man-html/Using-32_002dBit-Dictionaries-on-a-64_002dBit-System.html).
sudo dpkg -i ~/downloads/aspell-en*.deb- Remove the downloaded files.
cd /tmp
rm -r aspell ispell
rm ~/downloads/libaspell*_i386.deb ~/downloads/aspell*_i386.debNote that these steps are non-destructive: you can always roll back the changes by restoring the files named .orig.[/i]
Apparently, it’s impossible to install Scrivener on the current 64-bit Ubuntu.
The OP of that thread suggests installing an entire additional (but 32-bit) operating system, which, IMHO, is absolutely crazy.
I wish someone had just told us that Scrivener won’t work on the current 64-bit Ubuntu, and, that would have saved us all a lot of lost time and effort. If we’re gonna install a whole new operating system, we may as well dual-boot Windows, rather than having two differnet Linux operating systems, one of which is just for running Scrivener. Sigh.
Just successfully installed Scrivener 1.6.1.1 beta on a IBM Lenovo 3000 C100 - 512MB | 1,5GHZ running ElementaryOS!
Scrivener is running smoothly as it can be. 
Thanks for all the hacking tips. I succeeded to install kindle reader after that. I used the linking method to rebuild the 32bits aspell dictionaries, and now they show up in language selection. but the spellcheck itself seems unable to work… no clue running from a terminal… I may have not gotten all the files in the correct location.
I finally got the spellcheck fully operational in a nested install of Quintall 32 bits. Now it is working fine.
Scrivener is a wonderful software and it is a chance for the community to get it running on the Linux system in the best way.
To help users who got some difficulties installing the speller I’ve updated the procedure of edf
and add improvements allowing me to install the spelling. Here the procedure works for ubuntu/debian systems (.deb package).
With this procedure :
There is no need to install another instance of ubuntu in 32bits
nor create a chrooted 32bits environment to installed scrivener in it.
This procedure is based on the detailed previous one, but I’ve encounter issues that
I’ve solved here adding the improvements and provide more details to help
the users to understand their issues.
To get the speller working with ubuntu 12.04 to 13.10 in 64 bits mode :
The procedure :
Install scrivener with the ia32 dependencies (in my case I’ve installed skype
with synaptic, it adds automatically the 32 bits dependencies) :
Download the .deb package and install it with dpkg :
cd /tmp
wget http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforlinux/scrivener-1.6.1.1-beta.deb
sudo dpkg -i scrivener-1.6.1.1-beta.deb
Post scrivener installation to allow the access from your user account (replace fred by your user name) :
sudo chown -R root:fred /usr/share/scrivener
sudo chmod -R 771 /usr/share/scrivener
Now we need to get the missing dependencies in 32 bits :
Download the aspell packages with the shared library:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/aspell/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libaspell15/download
Download two other missing shared libraries :
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libncursesw5/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/precise/i386/libtinfo5/download
[code]cd /tmp
mkdir aspell libaspell libncursesw5 libtinfo5
dpkg -x ~downloads/aspell*_i386.deb aspell
dpkg -x ~downloads/libaspell15*_i386.deb libaspell
dpkg -x ~downloads/libncursesw5_5.9-4_i386.deb libncursesw5
dpkg -x ~downloads/libtinfo5_5.9-4_i386.deb libtinfo5
cp -r /usr/lib/aspell /usr/share/scrivener/lib
sudo cp -i aspell/usr/bin/* /usr/share/scrivener/bin/
sudo cp -r libaspell/usr/lib/aspell/* /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/
sudo cp libaspell/usr/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 libaspell/usr/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 /usr/share/scrivener/lib
sudo cp libncursesw5/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5.9 /usr/share/scrivener/lib/
sudo cp libtinfo5/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5.9 /usr/share/scrivener/lib/[/code]
Creation of the symbolic links :
[code]# get root
sudo su
cd /usr/share/scrivener/lib
ln -s libaspell.so.15.2.0 libaspell.so
ln -s libaspell.so.15.2.0 libaspell.so.15
ln -s libpspell.so.15.2.0 libpspell.so
ln -s libpspell.so.15.2.0 libpspell.so.15
ln -s libtinfo.so.5.9 libtinfo.so
ln -s libtinfo.so.5.9 libtinfo.so.5
ln -s libncursesw.so.5.9 libncursesw.so
ln -s libncursesw.so.5.9 libncursesw.so.5
rm /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/.rws
cp /var/lib/aspell/.rws /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/
exit[/code]
The new scripts add some variables to the previous one :
echo '#!/bin/sh' > /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo "ASPELL_CONF='prefix /usr/share/scrivener'" >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo 'PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/bin:$PATH"' >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"' >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo 'AC_CONF="/usr/share/scrivener"' >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
echo export ASPELL_CONF PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
chmod +x /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
sudo /usr/sbin/aspell-autobuildhash --dry-run --force 2>&1 | grep zcat | sed -e 's/var\/lib/usr\/share\/scrivener\/lib/' -e 's/usr\/lib/usr\/share\/scrivener\/lib/' >> /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.sh
It creates a new script which look like that (this is my example do not execute it) :
[code]#!/bin/sh
ASPELL_CONF=‘prefix /usr/share/scrivener’
PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/bin:$PATH"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
AC_CONF="/usr/share/scrivener"
export ASPELL_CONF PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en-common.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en-common.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en-variant_0.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en-variant_0.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en-variant_1.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en-variant_1.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en-variant_2.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en-variant_2.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en-w_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en-w_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en-wo_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en-wo_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_CA-variant_0.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_CA-variant_0.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_CA-variant_1.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_CA-variant_1.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_CA-w_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_CA-w_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_CA-wo_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_CA-wo_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_GB-ise-w_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_GB-ise-w_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_GB-ise-wo_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_GB-ise-wo_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_GB-ize-w_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_GB-ize-w_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_GB-ize-wo_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_GB-ize-wo_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_GB-variant_0.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_GB-variant_0.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_GB-variant_1.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_GB-variant_1.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_US-w_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_US-w_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/en_US-wo_accents-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=en create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/en_US-wo_accents-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/fr-40-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=fr create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/fr-40-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/fr-60-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=fr create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/fr-60-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/fr-80-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=fr create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/fr-80-only.rws
zcat /usr/share/aspell/fr_CH-only.cwl.gz | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=/usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell --lang=fr create master /usr/share/scrivener/lib/aspell/fr_CH-only.rws[/code]
Lanch the generated script :
sudo sh /tmp/gen_32_aspell_dicts.shI’ve made some modifications on the previous scripts to add path to the shared libraries
in order to solved the error : wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
If you already have the ELFCLASS64 error (which means that a 32 bits program try to load a 64 bits shared library), verify there is no missing dependencies with the load libraries command :
ASPELL_CONF='prefix /usr/share/scrivener'
PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/bin:$PATH"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
AC_CONF="/usr/share/scrivener"
export ASPELL_CONF PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ldd /usr/share/scrivener/bin/aspell
You must get something like that :
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf7725000)
libaspell.so.15 => /usr/share/scrivener/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0xf766e000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /usr/share/scrivener/lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf763e000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /usr/share/scrivener/lib/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf761e000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf751a000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf7366000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xf7361000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf731e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7726000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7300000)
No dependencies are missing as we can see in my example.
We know have to update the launch script of scrivener :
Add at the beginning of the script /usr/share/scrivener/bin/scrivener.sh (after #! /bin/sh) :
ASPELL_CONF='prefix /usr/share/scrivener'
PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/bin:$PATH"
export ASPELL_CONF PATH
You must get something like that :
[code]#! /bin/sh
ASPELL_CONF=‘prefix /usr/share/scrivener’
PATH="/usr/share/scrivener/bin:$PATH"
export ASPELL_CONF PATH
makeAbsolut() {
case $1 in
/*)
# already absolute, return it
echo "$1"
;;
*)
# relative, prepend $2 made absolute
echo `makeAbsolute "$2" "$PWD"`/"$1" | sed 's,/\.$,,'
;;
esac
}
me=which "$0" # Search $PATH if necessary
if test -L “$me”; then
# Try readlink(1)
readlink=type readlink 2>/dev/null || readlink=
if test -n “$readlink”; then
# We have readlink(1), so we can use it. Assuming GNU readlink (for -f).
me=readlink -nf "$me"
else
# No readlink(1), so let’s try ls -l
me=ls -l "$me" | sed 's/^.*-> //'
base=dirname "$me"
me=makeAbsolute "$me" "$base"
fi
fi
bindir=dirname "$me"
libdir=cd "$bindir/../lib" ; pwd
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$libdir
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH
exec “$bindir/Scrivener” ${1+"$@"}[/code]
To get it definitively work, a last chown is needed to restaure the rights to the user :
(replace fred by your user name)
sudo chown -R root:fred /usr/share/scrivenerLaunch scrivener, and your spelling is now fully working you just have to manage it in the options.
Have fun !
Fred
Thanks Fred - at last! Spellcheck working on 64 bit Mint Cinnamon using your instructions.
Hello, everyone. Using the excellent information in the posts above, I’ve written a shell script that automatically attempts to install and configure spell checking for 64-bit Debian-based systems. I’ve run this script successfully on two different machines.
You should have Scrivener working correctly without spell checking in your environment before running this. My own installs were done on systems based on Debian Wheezy and Debian Jessie. On my systems, in order to get Scrivener working correctly, I needed only to install the i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base package (and its dependencies). All other necessary 32-bit libs came pre-installed. My tests were done on recent releases of SolydK and Crunchbang Linux. You may need to consult earlier posts in this thread if you still have 32-bit library issues.
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386You may also need to perform:
sudo apt-get -f installto fill in any missing dependencies that the gstreamer library doesn’t pull in, depending on your system.
I’ve tested the script when Scrivener is installed both from the .deb and .tar.gz packages. The script is set up to work with the .deb install, but if you install from the .tar.gz package, you can modify the line that starts with “SCRIV_HOME=” to point to the directory where you installed it.
If you installed Scrivener from the .deb package or you installed the .tar.gz package to somewhere you don’t normally have write access to, you’ll need to run this script using sudo so it can have the proper permissions.
The script is extremely conservative when checking for errors and moving files around - it tries to stop immediately if something goes wrong. If it messes up your Scrivener install, it would probably just be easiest for you to uninstall and reinstall Scrivener, so make sure you back up your work first. This is very unlikely, however. Also, if you run the script a second time, you will get “File already exists”-type errors.
On my Crunchbang system, I get a gnome-keyring-pkcs11 error, but this is harmless. An earlier post details how to fix this if it bothers you.
#!/bin/bash
# Modify this variable to point to the directory Scrivener is installed in
SCRIV_HOME="/usr/share/scrivener"
SCRIV_LIB=$SCRIV_HOME/lib
SCRIV_BIN=$SCRIV_HOME/bin
TMP="/tmp/aspell"
ASPELL_DIR="$TMP/aspell"
LIBASPELL_DIR="$TMP/libaspell"
LIBNCURSES_DIR="$TMP/libncurses"
LIBTINFO_DIR="$TMP/libtinfo"
function download() {
apt-get download $1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to download package: $1"
exit 1
fi
}
function unpack() {
dpkg -x $@
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to unpack package: $1"
exit 1
fi
}
function make_copy() {
cp $@
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to copy file: cp $@"
exit 1
fi
}
function make_link() {
ln -s $@
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to create symlink: $2 -> $1"
exit 1
fi
}
# prepare temp directory
if [ -d $TMP ]; then
rm -rf $TMP
fi
mkdir $TMP
cd $TMP
echo "Downloading and unpacking 32-bit libs..."
# get the needed libraries
download "aspell:i386"
download "libaspell15:i386"
download "libncursesw5:i386"
download "libtinfo5:i386"
# unpack the libraries
unpack $TMP/aspell* $ASPELL_DIR
unpack $TMP/libaspell15* $LIBASPELL_DIR
unpack $TMP/libncursesw5* $LIBNCURSES_DIR
unpack $TMP/libtinfo5* $LIBTINFO_DIR
echo "Setting up aspell libraries..."
# copy new aspell files to scriv
make_copy -rf /usr/lib/aspell $SCRIV_LIB
make_copy -if $ASPELL_DIR/usr/bin/* $SCRIV_BIN
make_copy -rf $LIBASPELL_DIR/usr/lib/aspell/* $SCRIV_LIB/aspell/
make_copy $LIBASPELL_DIR/usr/lib/libaspell.so.15.2.0 $LIBASPELL_DIR/usr/lib/libpspell.so.15.2.0 $SCRIV_LIB
make_copy $LIBNCURSES_DIR/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5.9 $SCRIV_LIB
make_copy $LIBTINFO_DIR/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5.9 $SCRIV_LIB
# create symlinks in scrivener lib dir
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libaspell.so.15.2.0 $SCRIV_LIB/libaspell.so
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libaspell.so.15.2.0 $SCRIV_LIB/libaspell.so.15
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libpspell.so.15.2.0 $SCRIV_LIB/libpspell.so
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libpspell.so.15.2.0 $SCRIV_LIB/libpspell.so.15
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libncursesw.so.5.9 $SCRIV_LIB/libncursesw.so
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libncursesw.so.5.9 $SCRIV_LIB/libncursesw.so.5
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libtinfo.so.5.9 $SCRIV_LIB/libtinfo.so
make_link $SCRIV_LIB/libtinfo.so.5.9 $SCRIV_LIB/libtinfo.so.5
# replace symlinks with real files
rm $SCRIV_LIB/aspell/*.rws
cp /var/lib/aspell/*.rws $SCRIV_LIB/aspell/
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to copy aspell dictionary files (aspell not installed?)"
exit 1
fi
# set up env vars
ASPELL_CONF="prefix $SCRIV_HOME"
PATH="$SCRIV_HOME/bin:$PATH"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SCRIV_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
AC_CONF="$SCRIV_HOME"
export ASPELL_CONF PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# check to ensure the new aspell binary is going to work
ldd $SCRIV_BIN/aspell | grep "not found" > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "There are missing dependencies for the aspell program $SCRIV_BIN/aspell"
echo "These dependencies are:"
ldd $SCRIV_BIN/aspell
echo "These dependencies must be resolved or spell checking will not work"
exit 1
fi
echo "Generating new dictionary files..."
# generate new dictionary files
RWS_FILES="/usr/share/aspell/*.cwl.gz"
for RWS_FILE in $RWS_FILES; do
BASE=`basename $RWS_FILE`
NAME=`echo $BASE | cut -d'.' -f1`
zcat $RWS_FILE | precat | aspell --per-conf=/dev/null --dont-validate-affixes --local-data-dir=$SCRIV_LIB/aspell --lang=en create master $SCRIV_LIB/aspell/$NAME.rws
done
# backup scrivener launch script
SCRIV_TMP=$TMP/scrivener.sh
cp $SCRIV_BIN/scrivener.sh $SCRIV_TMP
echo "Modifying scrivener startup script..."
# modify env variables in temp scrivener launch script
NEW_SCRIV_TMP=$TMP/scrivener_new.sh
sed "1 a\
ASPELL_CONF=\"prefix $SCRIV_HOME\"\\n\
PATH=\"$SCRIV_HOME/bin:\$PATH\"\\n\
export ASPELL_CONF PATH" $SCRIV_TMP > $NEW_SCRIV_TMP
# replace the original scrivener.sh with the modified one
cp $NEW_SCRIV_TMP $SCRIV_BIN/scrivener.sh
# clean up
rm -rf $TMP
echo "Done."Kudos to the previous posters. I would never have figured out all the steps to get aspell working without their help.
Good luck!
Maybe things have changed for the better since this guide was written, but I have just installed Scrivener on my opensuse 13.1 distro and I found it to be very simple. Everything seems to be working although I haven’t tested the installation in depth.
This is how you can install Scrivener:
- Get the tar.gz archive and unpack it somewhere.
- Move the Scrivener folder in to your home directory.
- Edit the Application menu (right click the opensuse icon bottom left of the desktop) and add the application Scrivener where you want it to appear. Point the menu entry to the scrivener.sh script that is in the Scrivener/bin directory
- Fire up The Gimp and open the icon.ico file that is to be found under Scrivener/bin/resources and export it again as a .png file. Add this file as an icon for your menu entry.
5 Save and then start Scrivener from the application menu.
This worked for me. No glitches sofar.
Marc
I had a little struggle this morning getting Scrivener loaded on a new laptop running on Trusty Tahr, and I thought I’d pass on what I found.
Installation of the deb file failed using both gdebi and the Ubuntu Software Center. Trying to install the files directly from the tar ball resulted in the same error that Kona reported earlier where the scrivener.sh file can’t find the Scrivener executable sitting right next to it.
Following Kona’s instructions I tried to download the ia32-libs from the Ubuntu Software Center and found that they are gone. Trying to use apt-get instead gave me a message that they have been replaced by the packages lib32z1, lib32ncurses5, and lib32bz2-1.0. But they don’t solve the problem. They enable gdebi to install the deb package but the package won’t run.
To make this short, I finally found the ia32-libs at packages.ubuntu.com/raring/amd64 … s/download. You have to add a mirror from this page to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and then you can install ia32-libs using apt-get.
After that, gdebi installed the deb without problems and Scrivener seems to be running fine.
Just installed scrivener on Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit following askubuntu.com/questions/352717/g … 2-libs-gtk
It seems to start ok, but when I try to open a .scriv file made on a Mac, that file appears as a folder and when opened it appears to be empty, and the scrivx file inside the package can’t be seen or opened.
What I CAN do is backup+zip a project on my Mac, unzip it in Ubuntu and open it.
However, then I have different (diverging) version under Mac and Ubuntu, which is a pain at best
Quick guide for installing on 64-bit Fedora 20:
- Download and unpack the binary tarball.
- ‘cd’ into ‘Scriverner/bin’/
- Type ‘./scrivener.sh’. You’ll see an error message for a missing library.
- Copy the library name with the mouse.
- Type 'sudo yum install ’ and paste the library name. Then press ‘Enter’.
- yum will figure out the package name and the dependencies for you! When it asks you if you want to install, say ‘Y’.
- Repeat steps 3 - 6 until Scrivener starts!
I just followed this guide to install Scrivener 1.7.2.1 on 64 bit PCLOS KDE. Simple and worked immediately. Thank you very much. 
Now I can stop using my licensed Windoze version running (like a three-legged dog) in VirtualBox. Still need to work out how to get spelling to work (above guides don’t translate to PCLOS).
Spelling now working after installing lib64aspell-devel
Spelling working on Ubuntu Utopic (14.10), once I installed libaspell-dev (the lib64aspell-devel library is probably the name of the same package on Fedora-like systems).
The rest of Scrivener seems to work fine, though I’ve only just started exploring it.
I have been using Scrivener on Mac osx and ios for a few years now. Awesome piece of software. I recently set up a linux laptop and was psyched to see a port available. Thanks!
I followed the install for the .deb file. I ran into an issue and thought it might help someone to post here.
I just installed Ubuntu 16.04.
The application installed all lowercase so when you call “which Scrivener” as the docs say it comes back with nothing. “which scrivener” will return “/usr/bin/scrivener”. Minor thing but unless you are used to troubleshooting Linux apps it might throw people off.
The bigger issue was an error
“/usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener: error while loading shared libraries: libgstapp-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
I fixed this by installing libgstreamer as so.
“sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev”
Once I ran that I ran it and have not had an issue. Hope this helps and thanks again to everyone who make this possible.
Hi! I got Scrivener up and running on Ubuntu 16.10 with some of the same troubles middletwig had.
First, I was missing “libpng12.so.0” so I had to install that–I found the right package on this page.
Then, I had the same trouble with the “libgstapp-0.10.so.0” dependency. However, the command middletwig had no longer works because those packages aren’t available anymore.
I did some digging and found a workaround that user Spurlos used when trying to get a different program to run, but was missing the same dependency:
wget http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-base0.10/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-1_amd64.debwget http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gstreamer0.10/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1_amd64.debsudo dpkg -i libgstreamer*.debAfter doing both of these things, Scrivener is running on my machine. And it only took 90 minutes of Googling! I hope this helps someone else in the future.
OMG that is beautiful! Thank you so much!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
I’m new to Ubuntu (Using 16.04 LTS) and learning new technology for everything- this system, Scrivener, etc. Just discovered I was eligible for a half price code from NaNoWriMo 2016, but I use two systems in two locations and wanted the application on both- the description of the application sounds exactly like my existing PAPER process, which currently involves carrying about 60 tons of gear with me to the different areas and locations where I work, when counting a huge laptop, three paper copies of alpha reader manuscript notations, my own paper notes, my Alphasmart, and and and… I recently bought a small lightweight computer for travel, and am trying to coordinate all my technology to minimize hauling things to write… I could not figure out the install issues in Ubuntu until I found your post. It worked like a charm.
Now to import the manuscript and get working on revisions!!
THANKS!
-A.
I bought an Asus Chromebook with an Arm71 chip. I installed Ubunto 3.14.0 with Crouton and then installed Scrivener 1.9.0.1. I found the executable in my /usr/share/scrivener/bin folder. However, when I try to run the executable I get the error: “Scrivener: command not found”. All the fixes for this involve running on a 64bit chip. This is 32bit. One comment said that Scrivener will not run on an Arm chip. I really hope that is not the case. Any ideas? Thanks!