How to install Ganache UI on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

Question

Tried downloading the amd64 Debian release: https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-ui/releases/download/v2.5.4/ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage

wget https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-ui/releases/download/v2.5.4/ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage

chmod a+x ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage

./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage

It won't initialize. I get back an error message:

/tmp/.mount_ganach7FhmyY/Ganache: error while loading shared libraries: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

tried sudo apt-get install libgdk_pixbuf, Linux can't find the package

so I found this instead: https://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386

tried to download it via wget and initializing with ./ but nothing's working

also tried downloading the latest repo of https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-ui

ran nvm use 12.13.1

npm install

npm run dev

Only to get an error message stating that Electron-webpack is missing or something.

UPDATE: tried "yarn install", "yarn start"; received this error message

/home/ubuntu/ganache-ui/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

Try running the following commands to have ganache up and running:

$ apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget libgtk-3-dev libfuse-dev libgtkextra-dev libgconf2-dev libnss3 libasound2 libxtst-dev libxss1 libx11-6 libx11-xcb-dev
$ wget https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-ui/releases/download/v2.5.4/ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage
$ chmod +x ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage 
$ ./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Answer 2

If you are getting this error

    Gtk-WARNING **: 22:55:49.527: cannot open display:

Add the following to /etc/sudoers

    Defaults env_keep=DISPLAY

Than restart your terminal and you should be able to use it from your normal user, don't launch it with the root user using su. Launch it from the regular master account.