libgcrypt11 not present in Vivid (15.04), Xenial (16.04) - Spotify, Brackets and other app issue.

[Nicola Corti]

The package libgcrypt11 is not present anymore in official ubuntu vivid repositories.

This cause app crash, such as spotify:
spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Current workaround is to manually download the .deb package from launchpad/debian package such as https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libgcrypt11 and manually install with dpkg.

Linux SAGITTER 3.19.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 16 23:32:37 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

The libgcrypt20 package should be binary compatible with libgcrypt11; try installing that instead of the Debian package.

Thanks

[Nicola Corti (corti-nico)]

Unfortunately it does not work. With libgcrypt20 installed instead of libgcrypt11 spotify will not load:

spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Same issue is reported here:
- http://askubuntu.com/questions/613081/spotify-has-stopped-working-on-the-latest-ubuntu-today-15-04
- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Ubuntu-15-04-ships-with-libgcrypt20-but-spotify-app-version-is/td-p/1121359

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

@Seth Arnold:

Several people have tried creating a link from libgcrypt11 to libgcrypt20

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20.0.2 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.11
respectively
sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20.0.2 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.11

and have received errors like

spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.11: version `GCRYPT_1.2' not found (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data/libcef.so)

So that seems not to be sufficiently binary compatible.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Got this issue while installing Brackets 1.10 editor from official deb (https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/tag/release-1.10).
sudo dpkg -i Brackets.Release.1.10.64-bit.deb
[sudo] password for norbert:
(Reading database ... 728352 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack Brackets.Release.1.10.64-bit.deb ...
Unpacking brackets (1.10.0-17483) over (1.9.0libgcrypt11-17312+1~webupd8~0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of brackets:
 brackets depends on libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5); however:
  Package libgcrypt11 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package brackets (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 brackets

Temporary solution is to use previous version 1.9.0libgcrypt11-17312+1~webupd8~0 from PPA (ppa:webupd8team/brackets).
Or install required library from trusty (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.5.3-2ubuntu4.5_amd64.deb) manually.