Cannot launch Enthought Canopy (64-bit) in Ubuntu 12.10

Question

I downloaded the Enthought Canopy installer and ran it. The install finished with no problem, created ~/Canopy, etc..

However when I try to launch the application for the first time, I get the following error (line-breaks added before '1' and '9' for prettification; [U] is a non-displaying unicode character):

robert@robert-Q550LF:~/Desktop$ bash canopy-1.1.0-full-rh5-64.sh
    [installation legalese snipped]
robert@robert-Q550LF:~/Desktop$ ~/Canopy/canopy
/home/robert/Canopy/bin/python:
    1: /home/robert/Canopy/bin/python: [U]ELF[UUUUUUU] not found
/home/robert/Canopy/bin/python: 
    9: /home/robert/Canopy/bin/python: Syntax error: ")" expected

Has anyone successfully installed Enthoughy Canopy on Ubuntu Saucy Salamander? Did you encounter a similar issue?

Just to check -- is this a 64- or 32-bit installation of Ubuntu? (If 32-bit Ubuntu, then of course you must install 32-bit Canopy, to match.) — Jonathan March, Oct 13 '13 at 19:35
I installed the 64-bit version of Canopy on the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. It ran beautifully for about a week and now fails to start, as above. — NaturalLinguist, Apr 19 '14 at 17:06
You are not actually running the installation shell script repeatedly, right? — Jonathan March, Apr 21 '14 at 23:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '14 at 00:16

Not sure if the solution to your problem, but i need to run as root to the directory i install canopy, i.e., /root/Canopy/canopy

i need to run in Terminal (OS: Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.0.4 LTS),

Command runs as follow:

root@yovan-Aspire-4741:~# cd /root/Canopy

root@yovan-Aspire-4741:~/Canopy# canopy

Unable to load library icui18n "Cannot load library icui18n: (icui18n: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" /root/Canopy/appdata/canopy-1.1.0.1371.rh5-x86/lib/python2.7/site-packages/traits/etsconfig/etsconfig.py:373: UserWarning: Environment variable "HOME" not set, setting home directory to /tmp (environment_variable, parent_directory))

DEPRECATED: traits.has_traits.call, use "adapt(adaptee, protocol)" instead.

Hope this helps. Regards Wan

Thanks, I actually reverted my Linux install to 13.04 since at that time Saucy Salamander was still in beta. It worked fine for a week but then it crashed when I was doing a big sparse matrix manipulation. Haven't been able to de-install or re-install it. — NaturalLinguist, Jan 16 '14 at 01:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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It seems you have installed the 64 bit Canopy on a 32 bit system, as mentioned here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/361013/canopy-ide-unexpected-error

You need to install 32 bit Canopy on a 32 bit system.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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answered Apr 18 '14 at 04:46

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '14 at 23:19

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Since it was working originally, you would probably have been able to have reset by deleting ~/Enthought/Canopy_64bit and ~/.canopy, and restarting the app. But by now, version 1.1.0 is 8 months old, lots of fixes since then. I suggest that you delete these directories, and also install the current version 1.3.0 (or 1.4.0 within the next week).

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I did delete those directories. The problem came when I tried to reinstall, it said it needed to clear the old install first. – NaturalLinguist Apr 23 '14 at 00:26
That's fine, sorry I assumed that as part of installing the current version. By default that would be in `~/Canopy` -- just delete it. – Jonathan March Apr 23 '14 at 04:11

Cannot launch Enthought Canopy (64-bit) in Ubuntu 12.10

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