Hi Alistair,

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Holger,

On 12 March 2017 at 21:46, Holger Freyther <holger@freyther.de> wrote:
>
>> On 12 Mar 2017, at 19:32, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>
>> $ ldd /snap/pharo/x1/usr/bin/pharo-vm//vm-display-X11.so
>> not a dynamic executable
>
> your host doesn't have the 32bit libc library/dynamic linker?

That was the hint I needed, thanks!!!

After loading libc6, a couple of missing packages and adding a couple of
i386 paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH it's all working.

I put all these in the dependencies of the snap. Probably we need to put some of them (or all of them) also as runtime dependencies. I thought that it was done automatically because of the tests I did. Of course these tests were not enough :).

"gcc-multilib", "libssl-dev:i386","libssl1.0.0:i386","libfreetype6-dev:i386","libasound2-dev:i386","libsm-dev:i386","libgl1-mesa-dev:i386","libx11-dev:i386","libice-dev:i386"

I noticed some days ago that the packaged VM did not contain freetype, so there is something probably related.

I'd like to enhance this package.

> What does file say on the file? I never used snap but is the process
> running in the same environment? Is $DISPLAY set from the process
> point of view? Can it connect to the display socket?
>
> holger

Yep, the snap can be configured to use the hosts $DISPLAY.

Thanks again,
Alistair