I can’t open Slicer on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits :
Linux 4.13.0-38-generic #43~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP
I tried 2 releases :
1- “Slicer-4.9.0-2018-04-25-linux-amd64” and " , I got this error :
error: Failed to obtain launcher executable name !
2- Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/ ; got the following error :
./bin/SlicerQT-real: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
it is a hidden folder, you just need to run one of the commands I mentioned above then run slicer again. copy paste the command in the terminal and let us know what message you got. No messages means the command run without problem.
The path looks ok. When Slicer run it should create NA-MIC folder in .config. I suggest you try to download the stable version 4.8.1 then extract it in ~/Software then run Slicer in a terminal like this
~/Software/Slicer-4.8.1-linux-amd64/Slicer
if it does not work please write your terminal output here.