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Wallkick

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Registered: 2021-07-15

Posts: 10

[Solved] Blender dependencies require multiple versions of imath

After doing a system update I could not open blender without a crash like

$ blender
blender: error while loading shared libraries: libImath-3_1.so.29: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This happens when using either of the community or community-testing repo versions.

If I install the extra package for imath, trying to launch blender gives me an error saying that the testing package's version is not there and vice versa.

Blender is a very important application for me and getting it working would mean the world.

Last edited by Wallkick (2021-07-16 12:34:26)

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,299

Re: [Solved] Blender dependencies require multiple versions of imath

This happens when using either of the community or community-testing repo versions.

It is impossible that you get that literal error when running the stable packages from [community]. Please post the output when running without testing packages, and don't cherry-pick packages from testing.

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,366

Re: [Solved] Blender dependencies require multiple versions of imath

I track testing, and have imath 3.1.0-1 installed. I honestly can't remember the last time it updated.

I have Blender installed from, the repos, as well as 2.9 and 3.0 experimental builds (installation not necessary - just run from the unzipped archive) and they all run fine (notwithstanding experimental build problems).

You need to look elsewhere for your problem.

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ugjka

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Re: [Solved] Blender dependencies require multiple versions of imath

Sounds like partial upgrade

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Wallkick

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Registered: 2021-07-15

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Blender dependencies require multiple versions of imath

Thanks for the feedback.

Disabling the testing repos in /etc/pacman.conf and then doing system update seems to have solved my issue for now.