Hi ! I have a problem, I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, but I can't start Pidgin, it outputs this error message : " pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" . I tried to install a package containing it, but I found only rpms that I can't convert to .deb for my OS. Can anyone help me?
Thank you.
This google hit says you need to install farstream, apparently as a funny side effect of renaming farsight to farstream:
http://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466
I installed it, but when I try to start pidgin it outputs the same error.
Well, try to find that library, is it on your system or not?
Sometimes dynamic libraries are not installed in the usual directories, so check your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH Man Page for ld-linux (all Section 8) - The UNIX and Linux Forums
When using find to look for libraries, remember they may be sym-links to sub-versions, not simple files.
I don't have farsight, it looks like it doesn't exist anymore in this Ubuntu version. Instead, I have farstream.
libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0 => not found
This is 1 line of the ldd output on my pidgin executable. I added the paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, anyway those were /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin, but nothing seems to happen :wall:
You need the libraries listed by "ldd -rsv executable" and if dynamic they need to be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH dirs, else find another executable that uses your libs.
I did find this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/\+source/empathy/\+bug/951418
Sounds like a symlink will make it exist!
This says upgrade: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16335?opened=2372&status%5B0%5D=
I've installed Mint 13, I wanted to try this one too, therefore I don't have that problem anymore. Thanks anyone for the help.