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I have an music app that reports the following when I run it

gm3u: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeui.so.32: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can't seem to find what package will install this library.

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Look at this: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474778 – Uri Herrera Aug 8 '12 at 8:00
That solution - sudo apt-get install libgnomeui32 - no longer works as the package is not available. – Jazz Aug 8 '12 at 8:44

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That looks like a very old package -- libgnomeui.so.32 refers to the old GNOME 1 libraries. It's no longer available in Ubuntu.

Unfortunately, I tried compiling the gm3u source code but even that wants the GNOME1 development libraries and fails...

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Is there no backward compatibility for gnome apps? – Jazz Aug 8 '12 at 8:45
If you can recompile from source, yes, but in this case the source is poorly written... Unfortunately, it's like trying to run a Windows 3.1 application on Windows 7... – izx Aug 8 '12 at 8:47

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