Rockbox Utility Won't Launch - Linux Mint

[aethetic_memes]

Hi, first time Rockbox user here.

I downloaded the latest Linux Rockbox package (RockboxUtility-v1.4.1-64bit) and extracted the .tar
I launched the Rockbox utility as an executable, but nothing happens. I cannot find any Linux installation guide anywhere and I'm stuck!

I would appreciate any guidance, thanks!

[aethetic_memes]

To anyone who finds this thread - I could not fix the utility and I had to install the firmware manually.
I simply followed the instructions in the manual for my device (Clip Zip) and completed the set up.

[shabu]

I launched the Rockbox utility as an executable, but nothing happens. I cannot find any Linux installation guide anywhere and I'm stuck!

make sure all dependencies are met.

open up a terminal in rbutil-folder

run: ldd RockboxUtility

look out for entries > not found

install the missing ones (might be tricky to find the actual related package in your repo).

p.s. this would probably not have happened with a rockbox appimage http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,53036.0.html

[z0rk]

I am a little bit surprised that the utility doesn't run on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04:

./RockboxUtility: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.13' not found (required by ./RockboxUtility)

I would have thought that Ubuntu 18.04 is a modern enough Linux distro? No dig intended.

Respect to the Rockbox Dev Team and for all of their good work!

Cheers

[moskitta75]

I'm a noob 25 years old linux user, just installed RockboxUtility on my old old old system with Ubuntu 12.04 without any problem.
Now I can't understand, I dowload a file named RockboxUtility but I can't run or install it!
Solved with a deb package found with Google but is ver 1.4.0-1.
Tried to overwrite new RBUtility file in /usr/bin but the file is not an application.
Anyway I upgraded my Sansa Fuze v1 from RB3.13 to last 3.15 with the v1.4.0 utility.

[davespagnol]

I found that some of the dependencies needed to run version 1.4.1 in Linux were not met on two distributions I use. But version 1.4.0 works fine, unless you have one of the players that's been fixed for 1.4.1.

I used PCLinuxOS and v1.4.0 is actually in the repositories as "rbutil". Worked great for me.