Can't open //lib/byobu/include/common

[David]

Hi,

Trying to run Byobu, and getting the following error

/usr/bin/byobu: 52: .: Can't open //lib/byobu/include/common

I've seen a potential fix which is to check .byoburc in the $HOME folder, but this file doesn't exist.

I've attempted to reinstall, this hasn't helped.

Thanks

David

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

What version of Byobu? What distro?

Looks like maybe you didn't follow the build instructions all the way through?

[Vonschutter (stephan-schutter)]

I have the same issue. Default byobu on Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10. Error:
/usr/bin/byobu: 52: .: Can't open /home/lib/byobu/include/common

the file does exist: /lib/byobu/include/common

Why is byobu looking for this in /home?

This appears to be a configuration or cod error in byobu as nothing else is pointing in this direction for byobu's configuration file.

[Shaun (shaungarnett)]

The issue is in the ~/.byoburc file

Delete this file and byobu will run

rm -r ~/.byoburc