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Muaad ElSharif
Asked: 2018-07-28 21:23:05 +0800 CST

RSSOwl 2.2.1 won't run or install on Ubuntu 18.04

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I'm unable to install RSSOwl 2.2.1 since upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04, when trying to install the .deb file I'm faced with Libhunspell 1.3 dependancy (Ubuntu 18.04 uses 1.6), and trying to use the zipped version gives me an error: RSSOwl was unable to create a browser for reading news.

Can anyone help me with that? RSSowl.org

Edit: After installing Oracle JDK, I'm faced with this error message:

An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
Could not load SWT library. Reasons: 
    /home/username/.rssowl2/config221/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/23/1/.cp/libswt-gnome-gtk-3735.so: libgnome-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    no swt-gnome-gtk in java.library.path
    /home/username/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64/libswt-gnome-gtk-3735.so: libgnome-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    Can't load library: /home/username/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64/libswt-gnome-gtk.so
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1 Answers

  1. NOTE: You probably shouldn't continue using RSSOwl as there exists multiple vulnerabilites that will never be patched as the project is no longer going to be mantained. Furthermore it does not support Java9.

    Having said that, the following prerequisites are required to run RSSOwl as The .deb package is for an older version of Ubuntu/Debian and can't be used:

    • A working installation of firefox

    • The Oracle JDK/JRE 8, that you can install by

      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java && sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

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