RSView 4.3.15 - Ubuntu 24.04 Compatibility Patch

RoboSense RSView LiDAR point cloud viewer, patched to run on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble).

The official release (RSView_ubu20_4.3.15_0514) targets Ubuntu 20.04. This repository contains the fixes needed to run it on Ubuntu 24.04.

What was changed

The original distribution has three issues on Ubuntu 24.04:

1. Broken symlinks -- The archive stores shared library symlinks as plain text files containing the target filename instead of actual symlinks. All 244 broken symlinks have been rebuilt.

2. Missing execute permissions -- All ELF binaries and shared libraries ship without the execute bit set.

3. Python 2.7 unavailable -- Ubuntu 24.04 dropped python2.7 from its repositories. The app embeds libpython2.7.so but relies on the system Python 2.7 standard library. The stdlib from Ubuntu 20.04's libpython2.7-stdlib and libpython2.7-minimal packages has been bundled into lib/python2.7/, and run_rsview.sh has been updated to set PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH accordingly.

Only run_rsview.sh was modified. No binaries or libraries were altered.

Prerequisites

sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module

Usage

git clone <repo-url>
cd RSView_ubu20_4.3.15_0514
bash run_rsview.sh

Note: The first run copies Boost 1.58 runtime libraries to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu (requires sudo).

Tested on

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), kernel 6.14, x86_64

License

RSView is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 by RoboSense. See NOTICE for attribution details.

The bundled Python 2.7 standard library is from the Ubuntu 20.04 archive and is licensed under the PSF License.