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chalimbu

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Registered: 2019-12-30

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[SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

Hey everyone. I was using timeshift as backup tool, doing manual backups every week.
Today i update the system, (and the aur’s packages), but find out that time shift is no working propertly.
When opened it asked for the password(if correctly writed), it does no open the program.

I also tried opening it from the command line with

 sudo timeshift-gtk 

and get the error

 timeshift-gtk: error while loading shared libraries: libxapp.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

until now i have found that the folder that is asking for is in. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … pps/files/  (but cannot install it like others aur’s packages, i believed is installed by default)

Any help will be appreciate. thanks a lot.

Last edited by chalimbu (2019-12-30 19:49:08)

philo

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

This is an AUR package. A better place to ask for help is its AUR web page.

P.S. - xapps is a dependency needed by timeshift but it is not an AUR package.

Last edited by philo (2019-12-30 17:20:10)

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

Why do you think xapps is "installed by default", or an AUR package? It seems like you aren't clear on the differences between the official repos and the AUR. Please read the following:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … positories
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

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chalimbu

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

okey i asked in the aur page of the package if there is any update will update also here thanks philo
and i read the links and the packages are in the community repository(i read what it is) but still no clear if is active by default or anything else is needed in order to use( i read in another post that community even thought is no officially core is directly supported and update by pacman if it is the case i already executed

sudo pacman -Syuu 

and thanks WorMzy

philo

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

makepkg would warn you about missing dependencies. How did you build/install timeshift?

For your other questions, read again carefully the linkks given to you in post #3.

Last edited by philo (2019-12-30 19:03:54)

chalimbu

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

i already installed like 2 and a half months ago and since then the package has no been update, so i have no touched it.(last week it work without issues)

philo

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

Is xapps installed?

chalimbu

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

no i was not.
i installed xapps, after crontab and rsync. don't know how i was working before but after doing this the program is working correctly thanks philo

philo

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

Then type [SOLVED] in front of the header of your thread. Oops, done already.

Last edited by philo (2019-12-30 19:59:39)

chalimbu

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Re: [SOLVED] timeshift no opening (libxapp.so)

already did philo maybe you need to recharge the page. and again thank you