Yesterday i was trying to install scratch on my ubuntu desktop and followed this tutorial How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)?
And everything was just successfully installed but when i run scratch it shows me only heading and white screen. It was not starting. Can someone give me updated instructions on this. Thanks
... and this works for me on ubuntu 18.04 (64bit)
install necesary i386 libraries
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libgnome-keyring0:i386 libnss-mdns:i386 libnss3:i386
make keyring visible for Adobe Air
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
Download Adobe Air
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2
$ sudo mkdir /opt/adobe-air-sdk
$ sudo tar jxf AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 -C /opt/adobe-air-sdk
Download Air runtime/SDK from Archlinux
$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/adobe-air.tar.gz
$ sudo tar xvf adobe-air.tar.gz -C /opt/adobe-air-sdk
$ sudo chmod +x /opt/adobe-air-sdk/adobe-air/adobe-air
Get actual scratch file URL from https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/
$ sudo mkdir /opt/adobe-air-sdk/scratch
$ wget https://scratch.mit.edu/scratchr2/static/sa/Scratch-456.0.1.air
$ sudo cp Scratch-456.0.1.air /opt/adobe-air-sdk/scratch/
$ cp Scratch-456.0.1.air /tmp/
$ cd /tmp/
$ unzip /tmp/Scratch-456.0.1.air
$ sudo cp /tmp/icons/AppIcon128.png /opt/adobe-air-sdk/scratch/scratch.png
Create Desktop Shortcut
$ sudo cat << _EOF_ > /usr/share/applications/Scratch2.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/adobe-air-sdk/adobe-air/adobe-air /opt/adobe-air-sdk/scratch/Scratch-456.0.1.air
Icon=/opt/adobe-air-sdk/scratch/scratch.png
Terminal=false
Name=Scratch 2
Comment=Programming system and content development tool
Categories=Application;Education;Development;ComputerScience;
MimeType=application/x-scratch-project
_EOF_
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/Scratch2.desktop
I found an Ubuntu educational fork for Scratch 3 beta version. You just need to change language from french to english =)
For scratch 1.4 just type:
sudo apt-get install scratch
I'm not in informatics, but I think in the 1.4 version a library like Qt4 is missing for the fonts.
For Scratch 2, I didn't manage to install Adobe Air 20, it bugs too much on Wine install :/
Please don't over spam this french academy, as I don't believe at all their Bandwith to handle World's download neither a town's download. Just add the download to a normal download website for Ubuntu packages.
More over there must be an official link outside of the one I proposed as it's official Scratch 3 official beta version online works with Linux. Must be somewhere in GitHub or something?
Install adobe air as state on https://www.noobslab.com/2015/05/adobeair-is-now-available-for-ubuntu.html
wget -O adobe-air_amd64.deb http://drive.noobslab.com/data/apps/AdobeAir/adobeair_2.6.0.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i adobe-air_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -f
Install pixbuf stuff
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386
Install scratch (use 455, newer versions need newer AIR)
wget https://scratch.mit.edu/scratchr2/static/sa/Scratch-455.air
Start
/opt/adobe-air-sdk/adobe-air/adobe-air ./Scratch-455.air
See also How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)?
To bring Jerare's comment (consider posting an answer next time; you may get credit for it) further into the light, Scratux is a Linux build of the latest Scratch Desktop (currently 3.10.2) and is available on the Ubuntu snap store. I had to go through those Adobe Air installation steps on a previous Ubuntu installation; this is much simpler!
