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Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:01:01 +0000

Installation on Linux is well documented.

wget https://www.scootersoftware.com/bcompare-4.2.4.22795.x86_64.rpm
su
rpm --import https://www.scootersoftware.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-scootersoftware
yum install bcompare-4.2.4.22795.x86_64.rpm

On my Fedora 27 box, I found the launcher bash /usr/bin/bcompare exits with a return code of 1, if the linker cannot resolve all dependencies.

BC_LIB=/usr/lib64/beyondcompare
export BC_LIB
EXEC=$BC_LIB/BCompare

#check to see if we have all of the shared libraries.
CHECK=`ldd $EXEC | grep "not found" | wc -l`

if [ "$CHECK" -ne  "0" ]; then
   echo Some Shared Libraries were not found
   ldd $EXEC
   exit 1
fi

Dumping out the shared libs BCompare depends on:

Diff on Benny Simmonds

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