I have a question in regards to the linux version - currently it's only available as a .deb file, and whilst I have converted and installed previously on non Debian based versions I was wondering if a Flatpak version had been considered as then you could generate one version that would be linux platform agnostic.
I echo the request for a platform agnostic Flatpak. Until that happens, here are my hints on I got Beersmith3 to run on the current Debian 12 Bookworm. Two of the libraries BeerSmith requires have been updated in current distributions and BeerSmith doesn't run with updated libraries. Unless Brad updates to current levels of Ubuntu, I expect most Linux users will need to 'fix' some library names by installing or symbolic linking to run Beersmith3.
If beersmith3 doesn't run from the menu, open a terminal and try to run beersmith3 from the command line. You will see the library that needs fixing. After a library is fixed, you will see the error message from the next library that needs a fix. The new version of libtiff actually works, we just need to access it as the old name. libjpeg.so.8 is provided by the libjpeg-turbo8 package in Ubuntu 22.04. The dependencies of libjpeg-turbo8 are already installed by default in Debian, so it just needs to be installed.
The following changes allowed the application to run for me.
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5
sudo apt update
wget
http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/po...turbo/libjpeg-turbo8_2.1.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libjpeg-turbo8_2.1.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
The end of Windows 10 is approaching quickly, but I am happy with my current laptop and desktop for running BeerSmith. So I will upgrade each to Linux Mint Debian Edition. I use straight Debian on servers, but for desktop devices I like the extras that come with Mint.
Earlier this year I ran a weekly seminar for folks who wanted to learn Linux. Several users tried multiple distributions. Most of them ended up with the 'regular' Ubuntu based Linux Mint. Two ended up on Zorin which is also based on Ubuntu and is designed to be very Windows-like.
