Hi Matt, and welcome to the forum!
I’m not an expert in that area, but I remember that there have been some threads where people reported similar problems, and user @interactivefiction implemented several fixes and posted links to an updated build, I think.
Here are the pertinent threads:
I’ve had similar issues getting Inform 7 to work on Ubuntu 18.04, and have installed the dependencies manually according to the linked forum posts (many thanks for those).
I’ve installed both the Ubuntu 15.10 and Debian Wheezy versions and they both load fine, however when I attempt to load a project, the file browser shows everything greyed out (read only?) and I cannot open any file or browse to any subfolder. I’ve run Inform 7 as root (isn’t everything always a permissions issue on Linux!),…
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Hi everyone, I recently spent time working around gnome-inform7 webkit-1.0 and libgoocanvas dependency issues and recompiling the ide for ubuntu 16.04/18.04 and fedora 29/30. Both .rpm and .deb packages install without issue on both clean / existing installations of ubuntu and fedora.
Download Link: I am currently hosting the deb and rpm test packages on github (see link immediately below), please let me know your experience if you try to install them. You should be able to double click the r…
Hope this helps (and of course, as I said, the credit is due to @interactivefiction )
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