Installing SecureCRT on Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10

If you have downloaded the SecureCRT package from the Vandyke Website and used the software center to install it, you might have a problem with executing it from the dash menu or the command line. If you execute it from the dash menu, it will not return anything; however, if you run it from the command line, you’ll get the following:

jamyers@localmachine:/usr/local/bin$ ./SecureCRT
./SecureCRT: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.6.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You can fix this in one of two ways.

1. An Ubuntu 11.04 installer is available for SecureCRT. If you would like to try it, please send e-mail to Maureen.Jett@vandyke.com.
2. sudo apt-get install libpython2.6

I prefer the second version. After you have installed the python libraries, you are all set to execute the program however you choose error free.