Previously, I had questions about installing BIOVIA Discovery Studio Visualizer 2017 R2 in Linux Mint and/or Ubuntu. I have now been successful at this, and I thought it could be helpful to the community to describe the process. I have now done this on three machines.

1. Machine parameters:
1.A. i7-5960X, 64GB RAM, Nvidia GTX1080Ti 11GB,  Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD boot drive.
1.B. E5-1650 v3, 64GB RAM, Nvidia GTX1080Ti 11GB, Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD boot drive.
1.C. E5-1650 v2, 64 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX1080Ti 11 GB, Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD boot drive.

2. OS: all machines running Linux Mint 18.3 64-bit Xfce (based on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit LTS).

3. Additional software installed:

3.A.  sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
3.B. install ia32-libs (this may be unnecessary after doing step 3.A)
3.C. install winehq-dev 3.2 (not sure if this is necessary, but all my systems had this version of wine installed)
3.D. install Anaconda 5.1 with Python 3.6 (not sure if this is necessary, but all my systems had this version of Anaconda and Python installed)
3.E. install "dotnet" following instructions on the Microsoft site:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/linux-prerequisites?tabs=netcore2x
Installation of dotnet seems to be the key to a successful install of DSV2017R2 in Mint or Ubuntu
3.F. Install csh and tcsh

4. Install DS2017R2Client.bin in home directory (~/)

4.A. cd ~/
4.B. ./DS2017R2Client.bin
Follow on-screen instructions
4.C. After installation of DSV and the License Pack, cd ~/BIOVIA/LicensePack/etc
4.D. ./lp_config
4.E. ./lp_echovars
4.F. cd ~/BIOVIA/DiscoveryStudio2017R2/bin
4.G. ./config_lp_location
4.H. ./DiscoveryStudio2017R2
4.I. Follow on-screen instructions

5. Enjoy DSV2017R2 in Mint or Ubuntu!