If while trying to install the NCBI Genome Workbench on Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) you get the following error: “gbench depends on libglewmx1.6; however: Package libglewmx1.6 is not installed.” Follow these steps to install the dependencies.

1. install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install libftgl2 libglewmx-dev

2. install genome workbench by ignoring libglewmx1.6 dependency

sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libglewmx1.6 gbench-linux-Ubuntu-precise_amd64-2.7.15.deb

3. make a symbolic link from the older libglewmx to the newer version

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEWmx.so.1.8 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEWmx.so.1.6

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