Running the SDK on a recent Linux

I'm wondering if anyone's able to run the SDK on a recent Linux system. It's using some ancient libraries like libwekgitgtk-1.0 which are not available on Ubuntu 21.10, and probably also on much older versions. How are you running it on Linux?

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Kyle.ConnectIQ over 3 years ago +1 verified

4.1.1, which was just released, updated a few libraries. This includes libwebkit to version 2 and gtk to version 3. Please let us know if you're still running into issues after updating to SDK 4.1.1 and…

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0 flocsy🤠 over 3 years ago

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. We'll see in a month if it'll still work in 22.04...

0 9938694 over 3 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Thanks. Didn't know it works on 20.04. In that case I'll try to install 20.04 on a VM, and package the binary there with all the dynamic libraries.

0 flocsy🤠 over 3 years ago in reply to 9938694

to tell you the truth I don't remember if I had to manually install some deb-s for this to work, but I did not have to compile anything or hack things, in the worst case maybe I did download and installed some debs with dpkg

+1 Kyle.ConnectIQ over 3 years ago

4.1.1, which was just released, updated a few libraries. This includes libwebkit to version 2 and gtk to version 3. Please let us know if you're still running into issues after updating to SDK 4.1.1 and SDK Manager 1.0.4.

0 9938694 over 3 years ago in reply to Kyle.ConnectIQ

Thanks for the quick response and the update! Confirmed that it now works on Ubuntu 21.10! Couldn't be happier about this :-)

0 flocsy🤠 over 3 years ago in reply to Kyle.ConnectIQ

Kyle.ConnectIQ FYI: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/sdkmanager-upgrade-fails I can't upgrade to 1.0.4

0 andyj713 over 1 year ago in reply to flocsy🤠

What current distributions work? Does the version of Java matter, and if so which do I need?

0 flocsy🤠 over 1 year ago in reply to andyj713

I'm on Mac since, and I don't know what's the minimum java version required. Isn't it somewhere in the SDK installation page in the requirements?

0 andyj713 over 1 year ago in reply to flocsy🤠

The documentation only says Ubuntu and Java 8. It doesn't say beyond that. My experience with Java with other applications that the patch level version can make or break functionality. Ubuntu has a new release every six months.