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Unable to install silverlight in Ubuntu 16.04 after using tutorial from multiple sites

I have followed these procedures: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio sudo update sudo apt install wine-staging sudo apt install --install-...
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Gimp giving me "Failed to load module "atk-bridge" "canberra-gtk-module"

When i run: flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable I get Gtk-Message: 17:30:34.696: Failed to load module "atk-bridge" Gtk-Message: 17:30:34.754: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" But GIMP ...
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LIBRARY_PATH,LD_LIBRARY_PATH empty - Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS

I have been using my machine with no issues, but when I want to add my custom path to default lookup paths for libraries I am not able to because LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set (empty). So I copy my ...
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Can not install libappindicator3-dev

I can't install libappindicator3-dev on Ubuntu 22.04. sudo apt-get install libappindicator3-dev The following packages have unmet dependencies: libayatana-appindicator3-1 : Conflicts: ...
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C++ fmt library not working

Hi guys I'm a C++ beginner and I just found that the fmt lib is really interesting. But I ran into a problem when trying to use it. I used homebrew to install fmt lib brew install fmt .I check the fmt ...
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Struggling to build Qt due to missing OpenGL libraries

I'm trying to build an executable Qt-based program for Linux, and link Qt statically in the binary. According to the Qt docs, to do this I'm going to need to build Qt from source, starting with the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 upgrade fails; error "package dependencies cannot be resolved"

I was trhing to upgrad my pc The basic PC info description: Notebook product: Latitude 7490 (081C) vendor: Dell Inc. *-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Core(TM) ...
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Error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Network.so.5:

I was installing GNU octave on my Ubuntu 18.04 (from the terminal). After installation octave wouldn't open when I tried to launch it using the desktop icon. So I tried launching from the terminal and ...
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Graph Tool installation problems

I am trying to install python graph tool on ubuntu 16.04 . I tried both paths suggested here https://graph-tool.skewed.de/download#packages: manual installation using .\configure make make install ...
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How can I run an c/c++ program that use GNU Scientific Library (GSL)?

I'm trying to run 2 simple examples in c/c++ using the GNU Scientific Library. That are the codes: 1st: An Example Program #include <stdio.h> #include <gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h> int main (...
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Is my sound card dead? Ubuntu/Xubuntu no audio

I was wondering if anyone knew how I can check to see if my sound card is no longer functional or if I'm missing some libraries or something. The sound was working fine for a while and then it just ...
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Undefined reference to `memcpy@GLIBC_2.14' : Building Android SDK with SmartCard API support:

I am trying to build Android emulator with SmartCard API support. I was following this manuals: one two All steps passed ok, but when I run: PCSC_INCPATH=<path_to_pcsc-lite_32bit>/src/PCSC/ ...
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Salome issue with loading Binaries

I've installed Salome 9.7.0 and can get it started without errors. An issue comes up when I try to use some of the binaries. Most load and work fine, but I've listed the ones with probelems below. ...
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CMake can't find installed package

I often have lots of trouble getting CMake to accept that I do in fact have some package installed and it's because I don't understand what info to give to CMake and/or how to do that. For example, I'...
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/usr/lib and Conda Environments

I am trying to understand the proper way to go about solving an issue. Background: I have Anaconda installed with the default python 3.7.7 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I am trying to run a program with python ...
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Which MPI library are packages linked against? Open MPI?

Some packages in the Ubuntu repositories provide pre-compiled binaries of shared libraries (*.so). For example, the package fftw2 provides the FFTW library (version 2), including the MPI-related ...
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GTK3 compilation won't find right GLib-2.0, which I actually compiled. What am I missing?

The last days I struggled with libraries (GLib2.52.2 & GTK3.22.15), while I tried to compile them on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (fresh installation). The GLib2.52.2 just compiled without errors after ...
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Uninstall boost library

I'm trying to uninstall boost library: sudo apt-get purge libbboost-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ...
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software-center won't start: cairo and/or libgdk-3 problem?

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.5. and I can no longer open the Ubuntu Software Center gui, either from the launcher or from terminal. When I enter software-center at the command line, the message returned ...
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How to build libgit2 and php-git2 on Ubuntu 14.04

I need to build and install libgit2 and PHP-Git from source. This is my first time doing something like that and I'm not so experienced with linux. i followed the instructions on github. when i try ...
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What is a correct way to remove old boost version and install new one?

I want to delete libboost1.54-dev(which I think was installed via sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends libboost-all-dev) and install libboost1.56-devon Ubuntu 14.04. Seems command sudo apt-...
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Error installing needed libraries for Steam

So I installed Steam from the steampowered.com download. Now that Steam's installed, when I try to run it I get the following: Steam needs to install these additional packages: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386,...
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Evince can't open PDF files anymore

I always get this error when I try to open pdf files with evince: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.44: invalid ELF header Can someone please help me?
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Why has 14.04 LTS no static libraries in some packages?

These are the udev development packages for the last three Ubuntu LTS releases. File list of package libudev-dev in lucid File list of package libudev-dev in precise File list of package libudev-dev ...
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After updating the system to 14.04, an application fails due to lack of libpng15. How do i obtain it?

After updating my Kubuntu to 14.04, one of applications (the "King Arthur's Gold" indie game) would fail due to lack of libpng15 in the system. The error message is: [13:47:13] PNG warning: ...
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Pkg-config missing many pc files

I have been trying to compile gargoyle and keep getting the fallowing error. Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `...
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Library search paths

This question originally started in an apparent problem in Cups calling various back-ends and using non-standard library search paths. If I want to change a library search path for a app running in a ...
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dun goofed the files in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

there was some weird package issue with (in my limited understanding) 32/64 bit libraries, so i went around making symlinks to the file my lamp installation expected to the ones that actually existed. ...
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VMware Library Not Saving

I installed vmware player yesterday into Ubuntu 12.04. It is VMware Player 5.0.0. on top of Ubuntu 12.04. My problem is the fact the library refuses to save upon reboot. I start a fresh library upon ...
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How to install gluezilla-dev?

gluezilla was removed from latest Ubuntu repository for some silly reason. This library is necessary for mono web libraries to work properly (without gluezilla the web browser component doesn't work). ...
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Ardour 6.5 to Ubuntu Studio 20.04 - libraries

Instructions how to upgrade Ardour from original v. 5.1 to 6.5 in Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/ardour-backports After succeeding ...
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I'm trying to build m3tools and get this super long error

I'm trying to build I/O API 3.2 to use CMAQ. I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.3, using GCC compilers (v11.4.0). I/O API requires both NetCDF-C (v4.9.2) and NetCDF-Fortran (v4.6.1). I'm also using OpenMPI (v4.1.2). ...
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How to install the libxcb-cursor.so.0 library?

Looking to install the feather wallet for Monero but am missing a shared library as below: nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ wget https://featherwallet.org/files/releases/...
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unattended-upgrades.service using an outdated library in Ubuntu 22.04

Whenever I execute an apt-get upgrade, I am confronted with a popup telling me that two of my daemons are using outdated libraries, and I am asked whether or not I wish to restart those services. One ...
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unmet dependencies because newer version to be installed

I have encountered this issue in the last week (on both an old installation and fresh install) where when trying to install new packages I get dependency errors because a newer version than required ...
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Remove all manually installed libraries

What is the easiest way to remove all development library packages that have been installed manually, i.e. via apt-get install libsomelib-dev, on Ubuntu 22.04? Something like: sudo apt-get remove lib*-...
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apt --fix-broken install gone crazy

So recently I was trying to install an app which required newer version of libpango and tried installing it using sudo dpkg -i libpango-1.0-0_1.50.4+ds-1_amd64.deb Which gave me the following error ...
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ldconfig: libc-bin dpkg segmentation fault

I've the same issue as described here, but creating a new question since the mentioned is quite old and a further question there is still unanswered. Sorry if this is wrong. Cite: In an apt-get ...
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Cant find lib of mysql cpp connector

I cant find that driver. I installed it 10 times via libmysqlcppconn-dev_8.0.25-1ubuntu20.04_amd64.deb. Mysql Workbench and Server are working... I need it to link in my cmakeLists....
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qemu-system-x86_64: Display 'sdl' is not available

I'm trying to virtualize Android x86 on Ubuntu 20.10 with qemu-android provided by https://www.android-x86.org and I'm following this tutorial : https://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-7-1-r5....
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"ImportError: cannot import name '_gi'" error despite having python3-gi package installed

I am running the following bitbake command bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig and I'm getting the following error File "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal", line 9, in <module> from gi....
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ubuntu 20.04 LTS:mongod: error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmpmibs.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i was using ubuntu 18.04 LTS and mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-ubuntu1604-4.2.1 it was working fine then i upgraded to ubuntu 20.04 LTS and now i am getting error when i typed the mongod command ...
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Error while loading shared libraries: libnettle.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've upgraded Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.10. Unfortunately when I try to start xen with these commands : sudo /etc/init.d/xencommons start sudo /etc/init.d/xendomains start sudo /etc/init.d/xen-watchdog start ...
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Every snap installed executable getting ibudev.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object

Every time that i run any snap installed app, i'm getting this message: /snap/core/9066/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.1: failed to map segment from ...
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Missing Libraries When Trying to Use GPU with Tensorflow

I am trying to use GPU with Tensorflow, so I installed CUDA 10.1, CUNN 7.6, TensorRT 6, and Tensorflow-GPU 2.1.0. But when I import tensorflow to check if it can detect the gpu. it gives me the ...
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Pyinstaller could not find NVCC after generating one file executable, Ubuntu 16.04LTS

I have a python project that uses CUDA and Pycuda as part of the implementation. It runs with out error when executed as a python file. Then I generated an executable using pyinstaller but it gives me ...
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A required library with LAPACK API not found. Please specify library location

I’m trying to install ESTER and I keep getting this error message. I've already installed BLAS and LAPACK libraries. Any ideas? $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/usr -- A library with BLAS API ...
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Can't Add new local library Folder in Steam: New Steamlibrary folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions

I have steam client installed on my SSD. And I have games installed on secondary HD. When I go to Settings and Add Library Folder I navigate to /media/user/Storage/Programs/steamapps and select. It ...
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vtysh: Symbol `config_list_cmd' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

when i use vtysh command its give me this error vtysh: Symbol `config_list_cmd' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking vtysh: Symbol `integrate_default' has different size in ...
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18.10 -- gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h: No such file or directory

Make of xscreensaver-5.42 failing on this error. ximage-loader.c:43:12: fatal error: gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h: No such file or directory # include <gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h> ^~...
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