Installing IDA 6.9 on Linux – Hex Rays

IDA is still, as of this writing (December 23rd, 2015), a 32-bit application and both IDA & its installer(*) require certain 32-bit libraries to be present on your Linux system before they can run.
Here is the list of commands you will have to run in order to install those dependencies, for the following systems:

• Debian & derivative systems such as Ubuntu, Xubuntu, …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (and likely other versions as well)

Note: we cannot possibly install & try IDA on all flavors/versions of all Linux distributions, but we will do our best to update this post with relevant information, whenever we learn of a distribution requiring special attention.

(*) that is: if you want the installer to run a graphical interface, instead of a command-line one.

Debian & Ubuntu

Common dependencies

The following should allow IDA to run on most Linux systems deriving from Debian distributions:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6-i686:i386 libexpat1:i386 libffi6:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libice6:i386 libpcre3:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libsm6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libuuid1:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxrender1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libxi6:i386 libsm6:i386 libcurl3:i386

Xubuntu 15.10

It is necessary to also run those commands, for IDA to present a usable GUI on Xubuntu 15.10

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

IDA will require the following packages to be installed, in order to run properly on RHEL 7.2 (and probably any other RPM-based distribution) :

redhat-lsb-core.i686
glib2.i686
libXext.i686
libXi.i686
libSM.i686
libICE.i686
freetype.i686
fontconfig.i686
dbus-libs.i686