Re: [Pan-users] pan 0.143 crashes as Arch Linux

[Duncan]

Ruben Safir posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2018 01:20:28 -0500 as excerpted:

> I got it to compile, but it just wont run
> address@hidden ~]$ pan
> pan: error while loading shared libraries:
> libenchant.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory

1) What does...

ldd /usr/bin/pan | grep enchant

... return?  (Adjust the path as appropriate.)

Here, with a "reverse usr merge" of everything normally in /usr to / via 
a /usr -> . symlink, I use this command, with this output:

ldd /bin/pan | grep enchant
        libenchant.so.1 => /lib64/libenchant.so.1 (0xsome-hex-number)

On your system it should presumably be /usr/lib64/libenchant.so.1, or 
similar.  But it's likely to not have a path since it doesn't seem to 
find the file.


2) What does your package manager tell you about your enchant or 
libenchant package and its *.so* files?  Here, using gentoo, I use the 
equery tool (other distros will have other package manager database query 
tools, use what's appropriate for your distro and package manager) like 
so:

equery belongs libenchant.so.1
app-text/enchant-1.6.1 (/usr/lib64/libenchant.so.1 -> libenchant.so.1.6.1)

So it's the enchant package, and the file is actually a symlink to the 
actual major.minor.micro library version.  Let's see what equery says 
about the *.so* files in that package.

equery -N files enchant | grep 'enchant\.so.*'
/usr/lib64/libenchant.so -> libenchant.so.1.6.1
/usr/lib64/libenchant.so.1 -> libenchant.so.1.6.1
/usr/lib64/libenchant.so.1.6.1

So you see the symlinks.  Is one of them missing in your case?  As I 
said, what does the package (including the dev package if split, gentoo 
is build-from-source so it doesn't bother splitting off the build-time 
stuff into separate package from the runtime stuff, like most binary 
distros do).

There's also an ldcache that caches the paths to libraries.  Perhaps 
yours needs refreshed.  Unfortunately I don't know enough about how that 
works to talk about it except in the gentoo sense, where I just know the 
command to run and that it updates the ldcache among other things, not 
the mechanism for actually doing that update.

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