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Albuz

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Registered: 2025-08-27

Posts: 4

Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

Hi,
I updated my system this morning. After that this is what I get when trying opening Telegram:
"Telegram: error while loading shared libraries: libabsl_strings.so.2508.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
I read about this issue in previous updates, tried to yay -Rns Telegram and reinstalled it but the issue stays.

Any suggestion? Thank you!

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 523

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

$ pacman -Qi abseil-cpp

?

Albuz

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Registered: 2025-08-27

Posts: 4

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

$ pacman -Qi abseil-cpp

?

seems to be up to date

Name            : abseil-cpp
Version         : 20250512.1-1
Description     : Collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : [url]https://abseil.io[/url]
Licenses        : Apache-2.0
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gcc-libs  glibc  gtest
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : protobuf  re2  telegram-desktop  webrtc-audio-processing-1
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 6.44 MiB
Packager        : Christian Heusel <gromit@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : mar 17 giu 2025, 18:25:22
Install Date    : lun 4 ago 2025, 10:52:14
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Last edited by Albuz (2025-08-27 12:30:17)

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 523

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

At this moment abseil-cpp 20250814.0-1 is up to date.

Albuz

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Registered: 2025-08-27

Posts: 4

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

sudo pacman -S abseil-cpp
warning: abseil-cpp-20250512.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling

pacman doesn't seem to be willing to update it. How can I override it?

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 523

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

pacman doesn't seem to be willing to update it.

Aren't mirrors in your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist out-of-sync? Mirror Status

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 523

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

Also try to run "sudo pacman -Syyu" first.

Albuz

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Registered: 2025-08-27

Posts: 4

Re: Telegram-desktop won't launch after latest update

Also try to run "sudo pacman -Syyu" first.

already tried

Aren't mirrors in your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist out-of-sync? Mirror Status

Uh, yes they are.

edit: but apparently not all of them
this is my mirrorlist

Server = http://it.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://it.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.mirror.server24.net/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archlinux.mirror.server24.net/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.mirror.garr.it/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

even the first one should be successfully synced

Last edited by Albuz (2025-08-27 13:52:06)