Downloading and installing Detect Desktop

  1. Log in to Black Duck.

  2. Navigate to the drop-down menu under your username and select Tools.

  3. Select the operating system you wish to use in the Downloads Black Duck Detect (Desktop) section to download the executable from Google Cloud Storage.

  4. Run the executable to install Black Duck Detect (Desktop).

    If you are upgrading from a previous version of Black Duck Detect (Desktop), an option appears to migrate data from the previous version.

Note: As the application installs into a directory related to its name, Black Duck Detect (Desktop) will not uninstall previous versions of Black Duck Detect Desktop. It also will not uninstall versions of Black Duck Detect (Desktop) that were installed in a non-default directory. You must manually uninstall all previous versions of Black Duck Detect Desktop, versions of Black Duck Detect (Desktop) installed in the non-default directory, and fix or delete any shortcuts.

If the Black Duck Detect (Desktop) does not open after installation and the following error message appears:

The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/Black Duck Detect/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

your operating system does not support the Sandbox at the kernel layer. To run Black Duck Detect (Desktop) with the Sandbox disabled, enter the following at the command line:

blackduck-detect --no-sandbox

Command line options for Windows

  • Unattended (silent) install for Black Duck Detect

    ./blackduck-detect-latest.exe /S

  • Installing to a specific directory

    ./blackduck-detect-latest.exe /D=C:\directory

Installing the Linux version of Black Duck Detect (Desktop)

  1. Download the executable from your Black Duck server, as described in the previous section.

  2. Install Black Duck Detect (Desktop):

    cd Downloads

    To install on CentOS/RedHat:

    sudo yum localinstall blackduck-detect-latest.rpm

    To install on Ubuntu/Debian:

    sudo apt install ./blackduck-detect-latest.deb

  3. Change the permission of chrome-sandbox:

    cd "/opt/Black Duck Detect"
sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox

  4. Run Black Duck Detect (Desktop):

    ./blackduck-detect --no-sandbox