# \[SOLVED\] Designer "Launch client jar Invalid" error on Ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** designer\ **Created:** [January 13, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250 "2024-01-13T22:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sheila\_Villegas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sheila\_Villegas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sheila_Villegas)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/1 "2024-01-13T22:10:35Z")
hello, i'm new using Ignition First i install the gateway , then designer and finally try to lauch one but I encounter this error ![imagen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/c/0cfee79981d0e722f765719f064c852c56af7e2e.png) ![imagen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/b/1ba541ef65a63b74d60950739c0b6069f5636c13.png) don't know what happend I'm using ubuntu and java 17 thank for the help ---
**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/2 "2024-01-13T22:37:37Z")
Welcome, What version of Ubuntu? ---
**Author:** ![Sheila\_Villegas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sheila\_Villegas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sheila_Villegas)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/3 "2024-01-13T22:40:09Z")
Ubuntu 23.04 ---
**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/4 "2024-01-14T00:34:48Z")
> [@Sheila\_Villegas](#): > > 23.04 Not officially supported. Try this workaround: > [@Designer and Persective Workstation Apps not running on Linux](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-and-persective-workstation-apps-not-running-on-linux/83641): > > Hello, I''m having issues in running the designer app on an Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86\_64 machine. I noticed someone had the same issue on Mint back in 2019, but the workarounds didn't work for me. I tried both .desktop and .sh files but none work. It opens a terminal for less than a second and then nothing happens! Has anyone been able to run the Designer or Perspective Workstation apps on the mentioned distro? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Sheila\_Villegas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sheila\_Villegas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sheila_Villegas)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/5 "2024-01-14T01:26:42Z")
OGM IT WORKS i copy the files to /usr/share/applications/ and run gtk-launch designerlauncher.desktop and works! Thank you so much :') ---
**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/6 "2024-01-14T09:29:02Z")
You can mark this topic as solved, if you so wish, glad you got sorted 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cbabb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cbabb/32/49029_2.png) [@cbabb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cbabb)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/7 "2024-02-13T19:32:22Z")
I need to add to this... I was receiving this error also but under different circumstances.. in my case, I had a ver 8.1.31 app up in AWS. On the local computers at the customer site, I had the 1.1.31 versions of the Design Launcher and Vision Client Launcher loaded up and had no problem getting into the applications. We decided to upgrade Ignition to 8.1.36 a few weeks ago and after installing the 1.1.36 versions of the launchers, started getting the Launch Client Jar Invalid message. But only on the computers at my customers site. On my local dev computer, I had no problem running the 1.1.36 launchers. Going back to the 1.1.31 version of the launchers on my customers computers allowed us to get in but with a message to upgrade when we tried to launch them. After some time with IA tech support, we were not able to resolve the error. In the end, the solution was on our end to whitelist the customers computer IP's in their firewall to allow the cert check to be allowed through. It feels like something was added;/changed/enforced in the client launchers somewhere between 1.1.31 and 1.1.36.. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/8 "2024-02-13T19:42:12Z")
The launcher's own java changed from java 11 to java 17. Probably related. ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/9 "2024-02-13T19:45:48Z")
A few people at my shop had to delete their cache, even after upgrding the launcher. ---
**Author:** ![cbabb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cbabb/32/49029_2.png) [@cbabb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cbabb)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/10 "2024-02-14T13:43:44Z")
Jordan, that's typically my 1st step when I get something like this but it didn't help. As soon as the customers IT guys whitelisted the IP's of the computers in their firewall, everything started worked properly. ---
**Author:** ![simeonw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@simeonw](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/simeonw)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/11 "2024-07-18T20:11:23Z")
I had the same error appear, but for a different reason altogether. The designer logs showed the following ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/b/7bb13bb0136ee4878cc59236e17fb29d22297c2f.png) Turns out my system time was just incorrect. Synced it and I could use the designer again... ---
**Author:** ![David\_Jimenez\_Ruiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@David\_Jimenez\_Ruiz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Jimenez_Ruiz)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/12 "2024-09-23T09:58:37Z")
I got the same problem. I noticed the VM had a date and time different than the one on Log register. I synchroniced the date and time of the VM and that worked for me... ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Hernandez2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@Juan\_Hernandez2](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Juan_Hernandez2)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/13 "2025-01-23T16:23:46Z")
This Option worked for me, THANKS ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Buldyzhov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/andrew_buldyzhov/32/74246_2.png) [@Andrew\_Buldyzhov](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andrew_Buldyzhov)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/14 "2025-02-04T19:20:03Z")
I've got this error “Launch client jar Invalid” too and the solution from [83641](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-and-persective-workstation-apps-not-running-on-linux/83641) didn't help. I tried starting the Designer like this: ```python cd ~/.local/share/applications/app ~/.local/share/applications/runtime/bin/java -jar launcher-designer-linux.jar ``` and noticed that permissions were missing for ~/.ignition/ So the problem was fixed with this command: `sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ignition/` ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Goldie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/doug_goldie/32/58173_2.png) [@Doug\_Goldie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Doug_Goldie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-designer-launch-client-jar-invalid-error-on-ubuntu/84250/15 "2026-10-20T15:49:31Z")
Just needed to log in and add that I had the same issue! I use VMs for programming and I 'paused' the VM and then went to work the next day and unpaused it, the system clock didn't get a refresh and thought it was yesterday still. A quick time update and it was fixed!!