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xXebicXx

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Registered: 2022-04-29

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error while loading shared libraries

In short, I downloaded the launcher for an online game, and I used chmod +x to make it into an executable and then used ./launcher in the directory I used chmod in. I received the following output:

./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libnettle.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I googled it and couldn't find anything of particular help, so any help you could give is appreciated.

Please let me know in the replies if you need anything specific to help me, as I would be happy to oblige.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: error while loading shared libraries

The error is quite clear, a needed library is not present on your system.  And you will have a hard time installing it properly on a current arch system as the current nettle version is has an .so version of 8.

What is this game / launcher?  If the source is available, it needs a rebuild against the current libs.  If not, there is a nettle6 in the AUR which you would need to solve this error - but there would most likely be other issues after that.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-04-29 02:06:52)

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