Install-DiscoveryStudio-2021-on-Ubuntu-22.04

a copy from https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=352478

This is a guide for installing the free molecular viewer, Biovia Discovery Studio Viewer 2021 (Biovia DSV 2021) on a computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This procedure worked for me, but "your mileage may vary".

0. Before carrying out the following steps, get the System Requirements for installing DSV2021 in Linux. The names of the system libraries are for RHEL or CentOS. Find the equivalent library names for Ubuntu and determine if these are installed on your system. If the required libraries are not installed, locate and install them.

00. This guide assumes that you will be installing DSV2021 in ~/progs/BIOVIA2021, where "~/" is your home directory and "progs" is a subdirectory in home where you install programs. On my own system, I use the name "zware" for "progs".

000. You will also need to locate a source for libpng15.so.15. This will be added to the ~/progs/BIOVIA2021/DiscoveryStudio2021/lib directory in step 23 below.

              https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2138623
              
              Hello Community! 
              
              I actually found a way to install it properly:
              
              for those who wanted to install libpng15-s0-15 (or even any other libraries)
              
              first Download library (in this case libpng15)
              
              `http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng15/`
              
              locate the downloaded file and extract to Downloads folder.
              
              now go to TERMINAL and type
              
              `cd Downloads/libpng-1.5.15
              
              ./configure --prefix=usr/local/libpng
              make check
              sudo make install
              make check`
              
              Congratulations you just installed the libpng
              
              Now we need to create a shortcut and put it in /usr/lib for any program that is depended on it to work
              
              In TERMINAL type:
              cd (only if you are not using a new terminal)
              sudo updatedb (this could take a few seconds)
              locate libpng (locate the ".../libpng15.so.15" line and COPY)
              
              now we will create a NEW LINK (shortcut) of that file to "/usr/lib/"
              
              `sudo ln -s /usr/local/libpng/lib/libpng15.so.15 /usr/lib/libpng15.so.15`
              
              
              you can now successfully execute applications that require libpng15.so.15 

1. Download BIOVIA_2021.DS2021.Client.bin to ~/Desktop

2. Executable File

chmod +x BIOVIA_2021.DS2021.Client.bin

3. Extracting the installer

./BIOVIA_2021.DS2021.Client.bin --noexec --target ~/progs/BIOVIA2021

4. Go to the extracted installer folder

cd ~/progs/BIOVIA2021

5. Open install_DSClient.sh with a text editor

6. Change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash

7. Insert shopt -s expand_aliases above alias echoe="echo -e" and save file.

8. Make executable:

chmod +x install_DSClient.sh

9. Run installer:

./install_DSClient.sh

10. When prompted to select install location, choose [2], write

~/progs/BIOVIA2021/DiscoveryStudio2021

11. Change Directory

cd ~/progs/BIOVIA2021/DiscoveryStudio2021/lp_installer

14. Make executable

chmod +x lp_setup_linux.sh

15. Extract the License Installer

./lp_setup_linux.sh --noexec --target ~/progs/BIOVIA2021

16. Go to license installer

cd ~/progs/BIOVIA2021/LicensePack/etc

17.

./lp_config

18. Open lp_echvars in a text editor

19. change #! /bin/csh -f to #! /bin/tcsh and save and close file

20. Install tcsh and the License

sudo apt install tcsh

./lp_echovars

21. Go to bin folder

cd ~/progs/BIOVIA2021/DiscoveryStudio2021/bin

22. Configurate the license

./config_lp_location ~/progs/BIOVIA2021/LicensePack/

23. copy your copy of libpng15.so.15 into ~/progs/BIOVIA2021/DiscoveryStudio2021/lib

25. Open DiscoveryStudio2021 in a text editor; change ACCELRYS_DEBUG=0 to ACCELRYS_DEBUG=1. Then when DSV is started via the terminal, you will get a verbose readout that can be inspected for errors.

26. Run the DiscoveryStudio

./DiscoveryStudio2021

27. If all goes well, enjoy using DSV2021 on your Ubuntu 22.04 machine.