Launching Chitubox on Ubuntu

• Chitubox 1.8.1
• Ubuntu 20.04

Error on launching

Related to

./AppRun: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.15' not found (required by ./AppRun)

Fix this problem by

Create a starter script

• launch terminal
• change to the directory where you extracted CHITUBOX 1.8.1 to

for instance

cd Software/CHITBOX\ V1.8.1/

create a new file

touch App.sh

open this file with an editor of your choice (gedit, mc, vi, pico, nano …)

past this code into App.sh and save file

#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib
./CHITUBOX

make this file executable with

chmod a+x App.sh

launch CHITUBOX from commandline by

./App.sh