Fresh install of wireshark is broken - missing dependency?

Bug #1851926 reported by NeilGreenwood
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wireshark (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

neil@sulphur:~$ groups
neil adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare wireshark
neil@sulphur:~$ sudo apt install wireshark
[sudo] password for neil:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
wireshark is already the newest version (2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
neil@sulphur:~$ wireshark
wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libdouble-conversion.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
neil@sulphur:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: wireshark 2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-32.34~18.04.2-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Nov 9 11:17:32 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: wireshark
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood) wrote :
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NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood) wrote :

neil@sulphur:~$ dpkg --listfiles libdouble-conversion1
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdouble-conversion.so.1.0
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libdouble-conversion1
/usr/share/doc/libdouble-conversion1/README
/usr/share/doc/libdouble-conversion1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libdouble-conversion1/copyright
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdouble-conversion.so.1
neil@sulphur:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdouble*
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdouble*': No such file or directory

Reinstalling libdouble-conversion1 solved the problem. Not sure why it was broken.

Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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