Fixing ScanaStudio error while loading shared libraries: libftd2xx.so: cannot open shared object file on Ubuntu

Problem:

You want to start IkaLogic ScanaStudio, but you see the following error message:

./ScanaStudio: error while loading shared libraries: libftd2xx.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

You need to download the D2XX drivers from the FTDI D2XX drivers page.

Look for your architecture in the columns (usually x64 (64 bit), this is the same as x86_64) and click the link in the Linux row.

This will download a file named something like libftd2xx-x86_64-1.4.8.gz.

Now you can extract the archive using

tar xvf libftd2xx-*

Now we can copy the shared object file to the IkaLogic ScanaStudio directory:

cp release/build/libftd2xx.so.* ~/Ikalogic/ScanaStudio/libftd2xx.so

Now you can start ScanaStudio:

cd ~/Ikalogic/ScanaStudio
./ScanaStudio