How I Fixed Substance Painter Not Launching on Linux Mint (Nvidia GPU)

[Larry]

How I Fixed Substance Painter Not Launching on Linux Mint (Nvidia GPU)

I was experiencing issues with Substance Painter not launching on Linux Mint 22 with an Nvidia 2080 GPU. Here’s how I managed to get it working:

Steps I Followed:

• Install the Latest Nvidia Driver:
  I installed the latest Nvidia driver (version 550 in my case) along with the required Vulkan libraries:
  

  sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-550 libnvidia-gl-550

  
  
• Install Vulkan Tools:
  I made sure Vulkan was correctly configured by installing the Vulkan tools:
  

  sudo apt-get install vulkan-tools

  
  
• Check Vulkan Support:
  I used vulkaninfo to check if my Vulkan setup was working properly:
  

  vulkaninfo

  This command confirmed that my system was Vulkan-capable and correctly configured.
  
  
• Create a Symlink for libtiff.so.5:
  Substance Painter was initially throwing an error about a missing libtiff.so.5 library. Since I had libtiff.so.6 installed, I created a symlink:
  

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5

  
  
• Restart the System:
  After installing the Nvidia drivers and Vulkan libraries, I rebooted the system:
  

  sudo reboot

  
  
• Substance Painter Now Works:
  After following these steps, I was able to successfully launch and use Substance Painter without any issues.

Conclusion:

This should help anyone encountering similar problems with Substance Painter on Linux, especially if they are using Nvidia hardware.

[take]

Since mid-October, I have been unable to launch it again. Are you currently able to launch it?

Back in September, I encountered an issue where the application wouldn’t start after the major update to version 10.1.0. However, I was able to launch it by entering the following command:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5

But since mid-October, it has stopped launching once again.

This time, I am seeing the following error message, but since the file libxkbfile.so.1 does exist in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/, I am unable to resolve it by creating a symbolic link as I did last time.

error while loading shared libraries: libxkbfile.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Are you experiencing a similar issue?

[Larry]

I tried the suggested steps, but unfortunately, I couldn't get it working. Despite installing the latest Nvidia drivers, Vulkan tools, and creating the symlinks for the libtiff.so.5 library, I'm still encountering the error related to the libxkbfile.so.1 file. Although the file seems to be present in the correct directory, it doesn’t seem to load correctly.

If anyone has an alternative solution, I'd appreciate any suggestions.

[take]

I was able to get it working by launching Steam from the terminal with the following command, including the startup option:

$ steam -compat-force-slr off