Empathy does not open under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Jonathan Alfonso]

Trying to open Empathy results in nothing. Opening in a terminal provides this output:

empathy: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: empathy 3.8.6-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-18.38-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 18 17:43:02 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-15 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140314)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thanks for reporting this issue and help in making Ubuntu better. This is related to libhybris, and should have been solved by later updates. Are you still seeing this issue?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for empathy (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Dominik Zogg (dominik-zogg)]

sudo apt-get install libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-vivid solves the problem for me (got vivid X11 backports)

[Przemyslaw Kujawski (przemekk)]

Same situation here - installing libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-vivid solved problem. Maybe Empathy should have this package as a dependency?

[Jeff (jeff-mcjunkin)]

Same for me. Fixed by installing libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-vivid. Please add that package as a dependency.