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medve99

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Registered: 2025-07-15

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[SOLVED] Missing library error

I seem to have a problem when starting Hyprland. I got an error message about a missing library so called libaquamarine.so.7.
I looked further into it and it turned out that I have a newer version of aquamarine.
I tried updating both aquamarine and hyprland, with both pacman and yay (hyprland-git version), neither worked. I tried pacman -Syu too, nothing changed.
Reading the hyprland wiki I stumbled across downgrading as a solution, so I tried it. In some weird way hyprland needs both libaquamarine.so.7 and libaquamarine.so.8 so it wasn't successful.

I'm unsure what to do now. Has anyone else had this problem?

Last edited by medve99 (2025-07-15 22:29:35)

gromit

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing library error

Just rebuild hyprland-git so that it's compatible with the new version of the library.

Also see wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported for more information on the general phenomenon

medve99

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing library error

Just rebuild hyprland-git so that it's compatible with the new version of the library.

Also see wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported for more information on the general phenomenon

thank you for the quick response
I tried to recompile it, nothing changed. Am I doing it wrong?

I used the following command:
yay -S hyprland-git --rebuildtree --cleanmenu

there were no errors during the process

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing library error

In some weird way hyprland needs both libaquamarine.so.7 and libaquamarine.so.8

lddtree /usr/bin/hyprland # lddtree is from pax-utils
pacman -Qi hyprland-git

In doubt

yay -Scc hyprland-git

or even better: don't use yay itfp.

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medve99

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing library error

alright I got it solved, thank you guys for your help!

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing library error

1. "how"? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … way_street

2. Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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medve99

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing library error

excuse me

The hows are quite stupid: gave up and deleted every single hyprland file, then reinstalled it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but it worked for me. lost hope after everything broke.

forgive me for my lack of knowledge but I don't have a clue how to close this forum. I'm such a noob but slowly getting into this so thanks for your patience

edit: got it!

Last edited by medve99 (2025-07-15 22:29:52)