cannot execute birdfont

[Wei Tsui]

sudo apt-get install birdfont

=> birdfont: error while loading shared libraries: libxmlbird.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

while => dpkg -L libxmlbird1

/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libxmlbird1
/usr/share/doc/libxmlbird1/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libxmlbird1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1

========== no libxmlbird.so.1.0 found

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: birdfont 2.14.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity
Date: Mon Jan 18 20:00:37 2016
SourcePackage: birdfont
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Johan Mattsson (johan-mattsson-m)]

Thank you for the report. I forwarded this to Hideki because the
Debian package will probably also need a rebuild.

[San Lin Naing (sanlinnaing2008)]

Creating an symbolic link solve this problem for me

# ln /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1.0

[Johan Mattsson (johan-mattsson-m)]

It should work, libxmlbird.so.1.0 is ABI compatible with libxmlbird.so.1.3.

I did just learn how so version should be updated but I have not found
any Ubuntu document with instructions regarding the so version yet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mohammad Anwar Shah (mohammadanwarshah)]

On a 32 bit Trusty, This works as an workaround. Thanks to San Lin

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1.0

[Johan Mattsson (johan-mattsson-m)]

I believe this issue has been fixed in the latest release.

[marcio enrico pereira silva (marcioenrico)]

$ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

$ sudo ln -s libxmlbird.so.1.3 libxmlbird.so.1.0

[alfredo (alacis)]

My installation affected, too.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Still happens on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS.

[Ing. Josef Klotzner (josef-klotzner)]

The workaround worked for me also and fixed the problem:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxmlbird.so.1.0

Maybe someone responsible for distribution of ubuntu ISO could put this link to next release of ubuntu 16.04 ?? I did not check if 18.04 is also effected, but could do ...

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life on April 29, 2021.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for One Hundred Papercuts because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Works on bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish.

Still fails on xenial.