Sunday, October 9, 2016

Fritzing on Fedora 24

Fritzing fails to start as below, when run on Fedora 24.
See also - https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues/3245

tar xvf Downloads/fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64.tar.bz2 
cd ~/fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64
./install_fritzing.sh
./Fritzing
fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64/lib/Fritzing: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This can be resolved by replacing libgit2 as below -

cd lib
rm libgit*
ln -s /usr/lib64/libgit2.so.24 libgit2.so.23 
cd ~/fritzing-0.9.3b.linux.AMD64
./Fritzing