Installing Nipper on Linux Operating Systems

On Linux operating systems, the preferred method is to install via the GUI and allow the package manager to deal with the installation. 

If you are using Security Enhanced Linux and Nipper fails to start, you will need to execute the following commands as the root user:

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chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/libnipper2.* 
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib64/libnipper2.* 

    for x in `ls /opt/nipper/plugins/`; do chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /opt/nipper/plugins/$x; done

Nipper requires version 5 of the Qt framework to run. Qt5 is not available in the default CentOS repositories, but it is available in EPEL (Extra Package libraries for Enterprise Linux) repository, which is available free and simple to install.

Installing the EPEL repository is a two-stage process, first you will need to download the rpm package containing the repository files for your distribution, and then you will need to install the package using the rpm command line tool.

You can copy and run the commands for your Linux distribution before attempting to install Nipper, and the Qt5 dependencies should be resolved for you.

 

In order to install Nipper onto your machine, run the following commands:

 

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yum -y install epel-release 
yum -y update
yum -y install nipper-[rpm name].rpm

(eg. nipperstudio-2.13.0-centos-7-x86_64.rpm)

 

If you still encounter issues installing Nipper on CentOS 7, use the following commands to update the yum repository and enable the community repository.

 

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sed -i 's/enabled=0/enabled=1/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-CR.repo
yum -y update
yum -y install nipper-[rpm name].rpm

(eg. nipperstudio-2.13.0-centos-7-x86_64.rpm)

 

Double clicking the .DEB installation file which is downloaded from the Download Portal will carry out the installation as per the Installing Nipper on Windows Operating Systems .