Preparing Linux Systems for Mobile Designer

When installing Mobile Designer on 64-bit Linux installs, the 32-bit glibc package must also be provided. Depending on your distribution, it can be installed via one of the following commands.

For RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora users:

sudo dnf install glibc.i686

Users with older versions of Fedora, RedHat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS may have to use yum in place of dnf.

For SuSE Enterprise Linux, the glibc-32bit package must already be installed. This is best checked by attempting to install it. Issue the command:

sudo zypper install glibc-32bit

If the package is already installed, the output indicates this.

Optionally, if the user wants to use Mobile Designer without the Mobile Development perspective of Software AG Designer, it is useful to install Ant and Gradle directly.

For RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora users:

sudo yum install ant gradle

For SuSE Enterprise Linux:

sudo zypper install ant gradle

Note:
Some Linux distributions may not have Gradle or Ant available through the standard package repository. To install SDKMAN! and Gradle and/or Ant manually, refer to https://gradle.org/install/.

Additionally, users can use the JDK provided by the Software AG Installer as default by issuing the following commands. For all platforms, it may be necessary to repeat this process for javac and other commands.

For RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora users:

sudo alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java [SAG_INSTALL_DIR]/jvm/jvm/bin/java

sudo alternatives --config java

Then select the new default.

For SuSE Enterprise Linux:

sudo alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java [SAG_INSTALL_DIR]/jvm/jvm/bin/java

sudo alternatives --config java

Then select the new default.