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Skiesare

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Registered: 2015-01-02

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[SOLVED] mkvtoolnix and boost-libs

When trying to use mkvtools I get the following error

mkvmerge: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_regex.so.1.56.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have boost-libs-1.57.0-2 and mkvtoolnix-gtk-7.4.0-1, but the commit message for mkvtoolnix 7.3.0-2 is " boost 1.57.0 rebuild".

Any help would be much appreciated.

Last edited by Skiesare (2015-01-12 15:54:40)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] mkvtoolnix and boost-libs

Is your system up to date?
What command exactly did you run? No package from the repos provides 'mkvtools'.
I did run 'mkvinfo-gtk -s <file>' and it worked.

Skiesare

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Registered: 2015-01-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] mkvtoolnix and boost-libs

I believe my system is up to date. I have run pacman -Syu.

Commands to recreate the error include;  mkvinfo -s somefile.mkv and mkvmerge --version

I have removed mkvtoolnix-cli and mkvtoolnix-gtk and then reinstalled them to no avail.

Something is causing these applications to look for libboost_regex.so.1.56.0 instead of 1.57 and I can't figure out what.

Thanks.

Skiesare

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Registered: 2015-01-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] mkvtoolnix and boost-libs

I discovered that the apps had originally been installed in USR/local/bin rather than USR/bin and so I was running an old version even though pacman was updating. After deleting these old files I was able to install and run the apps normally.