On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:03:55 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:14:01 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

Error while loading shared libraries: libgnutls.so.26: cannot open
shared object: no such file or directory.

I assume this means it can't find libgnutls.so.26 ?

I've tried installing what I *thought* might be the relevant
package(s) from the respositories the machine offers. But still get
the above. I don't know if this means I haven't found it, or if the
machine requires me to re-build on it to make a version of ffmpeg it
will be happy with. (Although simply copying across the executable
was fine on my other machines.)

I've recently upgraded my last remaining Intel-based 32bit PAE systems
(Intel core-Duo and AMD dual Athlon hardware) to X86-64 operating
systems on the same hardware and have seen the same problem with code
that is using dynamically linked libraries. The fix has been simple:
recompile programs that fail this way in the X86_64 environment.

I think I've installed the 32 bit versions of the OSs in the machines I
have. Plan to go to 64 bit next time.

Don't forget that some libraries have what looks suspiciously like a
version number in their name. It that's what it is and the version
changes as the result of an OS upgrade or reinstall, then that could
prevent the library from being found and, again, a recompile should fix
that.

No source so you can't recompile? Then raise a bug so the maintainer gets
a heads-up to fix it.


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