Installing Zend Studio / Zend Guard on Ubuntu 6.1

Article #226
Product: Zend Studio

Summary

Zend Studio installation, uninstallation and the program itself will fail with the following Errors:
error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6 / libc.so.6 / librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
Same applies for the Zend Guard installation.

Cause

The Install Anywhere that is used is exporting an env variable 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL', which is used to determine the correct library location according to the kernel reported. Since the distribution is much newer than the installation, it is exporting the wrong location, and the Installer fails to find the required files, although they are present in the /lib directory tree.

Resolution

Here is the complete recipe for a successful installation of Zend Studio. Follow a similar path for Zend Guard:

If the /usr/local/Zend directory is not already present, create it. Run 'sudo -s' to get root, and perform 'mkdir /usr/local/Zend'.
Now make the directory Zend owned by your username, so you can install and run Zend Studio without using Root. 'chown /usr/local/Zend'
exit Sudo and return to normal user 'exit'
Download 'ZendStudio-5_2_0.tar.gz' to your Home directory. perform 'tar xvfz ZendStudio-5_2_0.tar.gz' to extract
The following commands are the actual solution!
cp ZendStudio-5_2_0.bin ZendStudio-5_2_0.bak
cat ZendStudio-5_2_0.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > ZendStudio-5_2_0.bin
rm ZendStudio-5_2_0.bak
run './ZendStudio-5_2_0.bin' to perform the installation under your user

During the installation, choose the default directory /usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-5.2.0
At the end of the installation, uncheck "Run Zend Studio now"

You will need to perform the exact patch for the Zend Studio binary:

cd /usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-5.2.0/bin
cp ZDE ZDE.bak
cat ZDE.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > ZDE
rm ZDE.bak

Now, you can run Zend Studio by running ZDE directly, or linking from a desktop / menu shortcut.
You can also use / copy the shortcuts which were created during the installation in your Home directory.

If you like to uninstall Zend Studio in the future, you will also need to patch the uninstaller, which is located under '/usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-5.2.0/Uninstall ZendStudio-5.2.0/Uninstall_ZendStudio-5.2.0'

The information in this article applies to

Zend Studio
Zend Guard
Ubuntu 6.1

Keywords

Studio, Guard, Ubuntu, Installation, libm, libc

Last Updated: 2006-10-31 14:10:34

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