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ACE 3000 on Linux Ubuntu 10.10

We installed under Ubuntu 10.10, I noticed there is no good install instructions for Ubuntu
I dont have a username for your forums so will list what we did to get ACE3000 working here, in case you would like to help others with Ubuntu as it is widely used 
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Program Installation
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Download ACE 3000 (32-bit Linux) from the download page.

extract all files to /opt/ACE-3000 (or extract in the GUI and move to /opt/ACE-3000 later)

Allow all to edit the ACE3000 files for license and recent list etc. by running the following in a terminal window:

sudo chmod -R a+rw /opt/ACE-3000/*

Open ace.sh in a test editor

sudo nano /opt/ACE-3000/ace.sh

Change the file to the following as it wont work out of the box:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/ACE-3000/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/opt/ACE-3000/ace3000

ACE3000 uses libtiff.so.3, however Ubuntu ships with a newer version called libtiff.so.4. So we just need to make a link pointing to the newer version, as root enter the following:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

Now test running it in the terminal

/opt/ACE-3000/ace.sh

The program should start fine

Installing the License
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Open ACE3000 and in the main window select Help > Enter License Key

Open license.lic in a text editor

copy the contents of license.lic into the text box in ACE3000 and click activate, there should be another window that says the license has been activated (I found that the confirmation window was hidden behind the Enter License Key window)

Create Icon
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Right click on panel and select add to panel, double click on Custom Application Launcher

Name = ACE3000
Command = /opt/ACE-3000/ace.sh
Icon can be a picture from the ACE3000 folder

Done!
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