Pidgin 2.6.1-1 broken (missing gstreamer0.10-base dep)

anakin · 2009-08-24 13:06:45

Since bugtracking is down I'm reporting this here and I apologize if I missed something obvious.

I've used pidgin for ages and the last update to 2.6.1 broke it for me:

pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

From what I can tell the libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0 lib is provided by the gstreamer0.10-base package which is NOT present directly nor indirectly in the deps section of the PKGBUILD of pidgin. The only package present is gstreamer0.10, NOT gstreamer0.10-base.

Since I'm a minimal user I also didn't get gstreamer0.10-base installed as a dep of other package which may otherwise have been pulled as a dep in the case of users who install much more packages than me.

wonder · 2009-08-24 13:22:23

the package need a rebuild in a clean chroot

anakin · 2009-08-24 13:26:48

Yep I agree.

I'd like to apologize for opening a new thread on this since it had been briefly mentioned in another topic. Anyway I was afraid it got lost and no one noticed it since the other thread main subject wasn't about this particular issue. On top of that the bugtracker was down.

tut · 2009-08-29 13:20:56

wonder wrote:

the package need a rebuild in a clean chroot

what exactely do you mean by that? I have just upgraded to 2.6.1 and the same problem as described above.

anakin · 2009-08-30 08:22:14

tut wrote:

wonder wrote:
the package need a rebuild in a clean chroot
what exactely do you mean by that? I have just upgraded to 2.6.1 and the same problem as described above.

wonder probably means that the maintainer of the package (not you) needs to build it in a clean environment so that he doesn't forget to add some dependencies just because his desktop system already has them installed by other packages.

As for the regular user, the easiest solution before it gets fixed is:

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-base

or

pacman -S --asdeps gstreamer0.10-base

The gstreamer0.10-base package owns the currently missing libs for pidgin, so just install it while it isn't included as a dep in the PKGBUILD.

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#1 2009-08-24 13:06:45

Pidgin 2.6.1-1 broken (missing gstreamer0.10-base dep)

#2 2009-08-24 13:22:23

Re: Pidgin 2.6.1-1 broken (missing gstreamer0.10-base dep)

#3 2009-08-24 13:26:48

Re: Pidgin 2.6.1-1 broken (missing gstreamer0.10-base dep)

#4 2009-08-29 13:20:56

Re: Pidgin 2.6.1-1 broken (missing gstreamer0.10-base dep)

#5 2009-08-30 08:22:14

Re: Pidgin 2.6.1-1 broken (missing gstreamer0.10-base dep)

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