I've just installed Linux (latest version of Mint) on an old iMac, followed by Renesas's E2Studio.
Most of it works .. . . . but the debugging probe (that works through GNU GDB) is unhappy.
It wants Libpython3.10, but the Linux installation includes Libpython3.12.
One would have thought that it would have the sense to use the more up-to-date library, but probably that was too much to expect.
Any ideas how to persuade GDB to use the library it has?

 

I'll try a install on a machine running a Devuan (Debian without systemd) release.

Linux maint9 6.10.11-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.10.11-1 (2024-09-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux


You should be able to install the old version and use update-alternatives to select the one you want.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/tj4b5s

 

Installs and runs the DEMO without crashing. I have no actual hardware to test debugging.

 

I've used previous version of E2Studio on previous versions of Mint, and it has always worked. I'll see what happens.
I note that InSync (which access Google Drive) has installed libpython3.9, and Kicad (I think) put in 3.11.

 

Maybe you can just add a symlink. It's unlikely there will be any API incompatibilities between 3.10 and 3.12.

 

Maybe you can just add a symlink. It's unlikely there will be any API incompatibilities between 3.10 and 3.12.

I don’t know what a symlink is.

 

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Installs and runs the DEMO without crashing. I have no actual hardware to test debugging.

It‘s still not happy: it wants libpython3.10.so.1.0 whatever that might be, and it hasn’t been installed with the rest of python 3.10

 

It‘s still not happy: it wants libpython3.10.so.1.0 whatever that might be, and it hasn’t been installed with the rest of python 3.10

As was said before you can try to fake it with a symlink to to what you have installed
Example. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285978

 

I found a copy of libpython3.10.so.1.0 on another computer and copied it across and now it is happy.
Thanks for you help

 

I found a copy of libpython3.10.so.1.0 on another computer and copied it across and now it is happy.
Thanks for you help

I hate when minor lib revisions are hardcoded into applications. I sometimes see that happening when there are licensing restrictions locked to specific system configurations. FIle a bug report.