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tel

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Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

Waybar is installed from the official repository, version 0.11.0-3
This calls in the fmt library, version 11.0.2-1

When I run waybar, however, I'm getting the message:
waybar: error while loading shared libraries: libfmt.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Why should the newest version of waybar be depending on an older version of fmt? Any way to resolve this?

Thanks!

Last edited by tel (2024-11-14 21:06:41)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

it shouldn't, install pax-utils and run

lddtree waybar

to check what's actually resolved. Random guess you have an unconditional conda setup or so which bends your lib paths. there is another rebuild in staging currently, so if this is indeed a packaging bug it will likely resolve when the new build of /usr/bin/waybar moves to stable.

Last edited by V1del (2024-11-12 22:50:33)

tel

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Registered: 2013-04-24

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

Thanks. After running the command, I get:

lddtree: warning: waybar: did not match any paths

Not sure how to interpret this.

live4thamuzik

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

I have waybar v0.11.0-3 & fmt v11.0.2-1 installed and it is working fine. Do you have fmt installed?

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Scimmia

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

You have to give it the full path, `lddtree /usr/bin/waybar`

But it's also possible you have waybar installed somewhere else that's overriding the package, so check `type -a waybar` as well.

Last edited by Scimmia (2024-11-13 03:22:05)

V1del

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

ah whoops wtf, I intended to edit the fact you need to use the fullpath into my reply and probably got sidetracked

but yes definitely also check type -a to make sure you're actually starting the correct waybar.

tel

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

Thanks all for your replies.

Turns out I had two different waybars installed. The one in /usr/local/bin/waybar was running when I type 'waybar' and was giving me the error. The one in /usr/bin/waybar runs correctly. I deleted /usr/local/bin/waybar, and all is well. Thank you all for your help!

V1del

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Re: Waybar not running due to old fmt dependency [SOLVED]

Great please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post