Problems connecting to JLink in Ubuntu 12.04

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  • Problems connecting to JLink in Ubuntu 12.04

    Hy,

    I've a problem connecting to JLink with Ubuntu 12.04. I installed everything as mentioned in the readme, but when I try to run the start script I get the following errorMessage:

    ./JLinkExe: error while loading shared libraries: libusb-0.1.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    I installed libusb.
    locate libusb says the following:

    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-0.1.so.4
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0
    /usr/lib/libusbmuxd.so.1
    /usr/lib/libusbmuxd.so.1.0.7
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-0.1-4
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0-0
    /usr/share/doc/libusbmuxd1
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-0.1-4/README.Debian
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-0.1-4/changelog.Debian.gz
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-0.1-4/copyright
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0-0/README
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0-0/changelog.Debian.gz
    /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0-0/copyright
    /usr/share/doc/libusbmuxd1/changelog.Debian.gz
    /usr/share/doc/libusbmuxd1/copyright
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-0.1-4:amd64.list
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-0.1-4:amd64.md5sums
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-0.1-4:amd64.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-0.1-4:amd64.postrm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-0.1-4:amd64.shlibs
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-0.1-4:amd64.symbols
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-1.0-0:amd64.list
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-1.0-0:amd64.md5sums
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-1.0-0:amd64.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-1.0-0:amd64.postrm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusb-1.0-0:amd64.shlibs
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusbmuxd1.list
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusbmuxd1.md5sums
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusbmuxd1.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusbmuxd1.postrm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusbmuxd1.shlibs
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/libusbmuxd1.symbols


    and lsusb also finds the J-Link

    ...
    Bus 005 Device 008: ID 1366:0101 SEGGER J-Link ARM

    can somebody help me fixing this issue?
  • Hi,

    We just released V4.62 of the J-Link software for Linux.
    This version comes with an updated version of the 45-jlink.rules file, so at least this issue should be solved.


    Best regards
    Alex
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