I have a weird problem I have loaded Kicad V5 on two Tumbleweed computers. One complains about libGLEW.so.2.1 as in this thread but I am not using slackware as in this thread.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-a-4175613831/
As a test I installed Kicad on a Ubuntu 18 computer and that was fine.
The Tumbleweed computer has another that didn't exist before upgrading to Tumbleweed in that it has a screwed up start up where I have to login as root and type startx but once running it appears to be fine which is why I loaded Kicad. What might be causing the failure to set up Kicad & why is it complaining about a Slackware package as the above thread suggests?

I guess one of the computers has Glew installed, and the other has not.

libGLEW.so.2.1 is not a Slackware package. It's the name of a shared library that is available on many distros. The thread suggests a Slackware package because the problem occurred on Slackware.

I assume you installed kicad from the tumbleweed repositories? That should have cleared up any dependency issues. When you log in as root at the console screen try to see if that clears up any missing dependencies. Also as you may know logging in to the gui as root is not recommended so when you've tried zypper dup type exit and you'll revert to "login" prompt. Type in your username and password and then typefollowed password (root, I think in standard tumbleweed config) and that should open the gui in your username.

However, there is obviously a problem with your tumbleweed installation as a standard install should take you straight to a gui as user.

Yes it is strange that Tumbleweed is screwed up but it is worse than I thought. I have had Tumbleweed on a computer for over a year without any problems which is why I thought I would upgrade my laptop and desktop. After poking around last night and trying to get the dependencies sorted out like suggested above with zypper etc I cleared everything out and tried to reinstall because GLEW was 2.2 but on the laptop it was 2.1. Why correct on laptop and not the desktop having been upgraded in the same way with the same medium. Further Investigation has revealed Tumbleweed is not a supported platform for Kicad and the Kicad versions loaded were different as if the Tumbleweed repository was changed between upgrades. There seems to be problems on the laptop as well that had a package fault on its first update so I am going to dump Tumbleweed and load a stable platform. Thanks for the help.

I believe it does if you let the installer take over after the first few questions are asked. But... you can specify what `level' you want the system to boot into before you tell it to proceed with the disk config and package installations.

Cheers...

Ruptor, can you be more specific with the error? Is it segfaulting, is it saying the file is missing, etc...?