Trying to start BIRT on Ubuntu seems to complain about 64-bit lib

(Completely new to BIRT and didn't see a forum devoted to simple installation issues so I'm asking here -- hope that's appropriate.)

Having been asked by a colleague to see if BIRT would run on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 system, I downloaded the following tarball:

birt-report-designer-all-in-one-linux-gtk-2_6_2.tar.gz

which allegedly is a self-contained archive with everything I need to run BIRT. So my first question would be, is that true in the sense that if I have Eclipse installed elsewhere on my system, that other version would be ignored? (In other words, could the proper running of this download be affected by something else I have installed?)

Moving on, I untarred that under my home directory, changed nothing and simply ran the "eclipse" executable I saw at the top level, to get:

$ ./eclipse
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
$

That's odd since this *is* a 64-bit system with a 64-bit kernel, and that library is a 64-bit library. It seems as if running eclipse is instead demanding to load a 32-bit version of that shared lib. Can anyone enlighten me here? I changed nothing in the untarred directory, simply ran that executable. Anyone seen something like this before? Thanks.

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rpjday

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'rpjday'" data-cid="75465" data-time="1302014251" data-date="05 April 2011 - 07:37 AM">
(Completely new to BIRT and didn't see a forum devoted to simple installation issues so I'm asking here -- hope that's appropriate.) 
 
Having been asked by a colleague to see if BIRT would run on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 system, I downloaded the following tarball: 
 
birt-report-designer-all-in-one-linux-gtk-2_6_2.tar.gz 
 
which allegedly is a self-contained archive with everything I need to run BIRT. So my first question would be, is that true in the sense that if I have Eclipse installed elsewhere on my system, that other version would be ignored? (In other words, could the proper running of this download be affected by something else I have installed?) 
 
Moving on, I untarred that under my home directory, changed nothing and simply ran the "eclipse" executable I saw at the top level, to get: 
 
$ ./eclipse 
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so 
$ 
 
That's odd since this *is* a 64-bit system with a 64-bit kernel, and that library is a 64-bit library. It seems as if running eclipse is instead demanding to load a 32-bit version of that shared lib. Can anyone enlighten me here? I changed nothing in the untarred directory, simply ran that executable. Anyone seen something like this before? Thanks. </blockquote>
 
Whoops, I just noticed that that top-level eclipse executable is itself 32-bit, which is probably what's responsible for trying to drag in a 32-bit library. Is there no 64-bit build of a Linux BIRT install?

garyc

Hi

Not sure if you have solved this but I had exactly the same issue.

I did come across the following package:

eclipse-reporting-helios-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

which you can get from:

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/helios/SR2/eclipse-reporting-helios-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

This has worked flawlessly for me.

Regards

Gary