DSV2017R2 for linux is officially supported only on RHEL and SUSE. Nevertheless, I have been able to get it working on Linux Mint 18.3 64-bit Xfce (based on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit.). Unfortunately, my early attempts to install DSV on Linux Mint 19 64-bit Xfce (based on Ubuntu 18.04 were unsuccessful. However, I have finally been able to install DSV on two unsupported linux versions as follows:

1. In Manjaro 17.1.12 Xfce 64-bit, by following the excellent tutorial at the following link on GitHub:

https://github.com/cguetot/DSV

Manjaro is based on Arch linux.

2.. In Linux Mint 19 Xfce 64 bit, by adapting the tutorial linked above for Manjaro linux. It was necessary to install some outdated packages that were not in the repositories, such as version 0.10 for gstreamer rather than the current version 10.

3. Be sure to find all the files that are equivalent to the Arch versions in your particular linux distro.

4. When creating the symlinks to libz.so and libz.so.1, be sure to link from the locations of these files in your linux distribution and to use the 32-bit versions of these files even if you are using 64-bit linux.

5. I also found it necessary to copy all the library files from BIOVIA/LicensePack/linux/lib to BIOVIA/DiscoveryStudio2017R2/lib.

6. Finally, edit the file BIOVIA/DiscoveryStudio2017R2/bin/DiscoveryStudio2017R2 and change the first line from "#!/bin/sh" to "#!/bin/bash.

Now you should be able to start the program by double-clicking the desktop icon or by using the terminal to cd to BIOVIA/DiscoveryStudio2017R2/bin and issuing "./DiscoveryStuioR2".