Thanks a lot, will give it a try!
Best
Klemens
Original Message:
Sent: 5/30/2024 4:04:00 AM
From: Laurent Martin
Subject: RE: aspera install on Ubuntu
Eh eh, I was suspecting you were looking for the command line ... (molecular business...)
As Ben wrote, you have a choice of two command line tools:
- ascp : the low level command line for Aspera Transfers
- ascli : the high level command line provided in ruby gem: aspera-cli
On Ubuntu I suggess you install aspera-cli, it's normally easy:
sudo apt-get install -y ruby-full
sudo gem install aspera-cli
ascli conf ascp install
Then you have both CLI :
ascli shall be directly available in the PATH (/usr/local/bin/ascli)
and ascp will be located here: $HOME/.aspera/sdk/ascp
For example the following two command are equivalent:
ASPERA_SCP_PASS=demoaspera $HOME/.aspera/sdk/ascp --host=demo.asperasoft.com -P 33001 --user=aspera --mode=recv -l 100m /aspera-test-dir-small/10MB.1 .
ascli server --url=ssh://demo.asperasoft.com:33001 --username=aspera --password=demoaspera download /aspera-test-dir-small/10MB.1 --to-folder=. --ts=@json:'{"target_rate_kpbs":100000}'
Note that ascp is part of the connect client, so you already have it here: $HOME/.aspera/connect/bin/ascp
ascli has capabilities of transfer resume, configuration file, and more (see its manual: https://github.com/IBM/aspera-cli)
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Laurent Martin
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed May 29, 2024 05:16 PM
From: Klemens Vierlinger
Subject: aspera install on Ubuntu
Thanks, that would explain it!
I was told I would be able to use it from the shell... Are you considering providing a command line interface in the future?
Best
Klemens
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Original Message:
Sent: 5/29/2024 10:21:00 AM
From: Laurent Martin
Subject: RE: aspera install on Ubuntu
Well, it's same issue with more details.
There is this message:
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display
That means that the connect client cannot open the display.
Check your variable $DISPLAY
Basically, I can reproduce the problem like this, by using a non-existing display:
DISPLAY=:5 QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.aspera/connect/plugins $HOME/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect.bin
By the way,
Aspera Connect is a client to be used with a web browser application.
Normally, after installation, it has registered a protocol handler so that a browser can start it.
So normal usage is not to start on command line, it should be started by the windowing system.
So maybe first confirm what you want to do: transfer with Aspera using a web browser ?
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Laurent Martin
Original Message:
Sent: Wed May 29, 2024 09:12 AM
From: Klemens Vierlinger
Subject: aspera install on Ubuntu
This what I get as an output, but don't know what it means...
Best regards and many thanks
Klemens
rstudio@rstudiolxc:~$ QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.aspera/connect/plugins $HOME/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect.bin
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: checking directory path "/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/plugins/platforms" ...
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: looking at "/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so"
qt.core.plugin.loader: Found metadata in lib /home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{
"IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
"MetaData": {
"Keys": [
"xcb"
]
},
"archlevel": 1,
"className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
"debug": false,
"version": 394496
}
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: Got keys from plugin meta data QList("xcb")
qt.core.plugin.factoryloader: checking directory path "/home/rstudio/.aspera/con nect/bin/platforms" ...
qt.core.library: "/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so" lo aded library
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initiali zed. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: xcb.
Aborted (core dumped)
KLEMENS VIERLINGER
Senior Scientist
Molecular Diagnostics
Center for Health & Bioresources
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria
T +43 50550-4459 | M +43 664 6207633
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Original Message:
Sent: 5/29/2024 8:56:00 AM
From: Laurent Martin
Subject: RE: aspera install on Ubuntu
Well, I tested on ubuntu 22.04 and Aspera Connect works (even without changing the start script)
You might try to see what's wrong with Qt with:
QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.aspera/connect/plugins $HOME/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect.bin
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Laurent Martin
Original Message:
Sent: Wed May 29, 2024 06:22 AM
From: Klemens Vierlinger
Subject: aspera install on Ubuntu
Thanks for your quick and competent answer, it solved the problem at hand, but another issue now popped up:
$ ~/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "offscreen" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: xcb.
Reinstalling Qt not change the behavoir.
Has anyone come across that problem before?
Many thanks and best regards
Klemens
KLEMENS VIERLINGER
Senior Scientist
Molecular Diagnostics
Center for Health & Bioresources
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria
T +43 50550-4459 | M +43 664 6207633
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Original Message:
Sent: 5/29/2024 3:45:00 AM
From: Laurent Martin
Subject: RE: aspera install on Ubuntu
Hi,
I installed Connect 4.4 on Rocky Linux 9, and got same issue:
There seems to be a bug in the starter script, to fix this, I did:
sed -i.bak 's/^\(export LD_PRELOAD=\)/#\1/' $HOME/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect
This fixes the startup script.
On Rocky 9, I also installed the following packages to get missing libs:
sudo dnf install -y libglvnd-glx fontconfig
One can check if all libraries are found with :
ldd $HOME/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect.bin
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Laurent Martin
Original Message:
Sent: Tue May 28, 2024 05:31 PM
From: Klemens Vierlinger
Subject: aspera install on Ubuntu
Dear all,
I fail to run aspera on my Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. It installs without error, but when I run it, I get the following error message
Anyone able to help?
Thanks and best
Klemens
$ ~/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/bin/../lib/libssl.so.1.0.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/bin/../lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (can not open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/bin/../lib/libssl.so.1.0.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/bin/../lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (can not open shared object file): ignored.
/home/rstudio/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLX.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Klemens Vierlinger
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