cant start medit (solved)

ramoneur · 2007-09-16 21:23:15

after upgrading my whole system just minutes ago and restarting my computer, i try to start medit (which is a text editor for those who dont know) but it doesnt work.
i get the error message: [ramoneur@Arch ~]$ medit
medit: error while loading shared libraries: libobjc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i searched pacman and google and so on for some libobjc to download but didnt find anything.
i need help cause i dont know what to do.

Last edited by ramoneur (2007-09-16 21:58:38)

fwojciec · 2007-09-16 21:24:13

I've fixed it by rebuilding using abs. It seems to be related to the gcc update.

ramoneur · 2007-09-16 21:31:30

rebuilding what? and what is abs? :$

fwojciec · 2007-09-16 21:43:09

ABS: Arch Build System, it's the infrastructure for building Arch Linux packages, all Arch packages are built using ABS. You can have ABS on your computer and use it to build packages from source, customize them etc. Very useful tool overall. Read more about it here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

If you want to build medit from source you'd need to install ABS as the wiki says, you'd also need to edit /etc/abs/abs.conf to enable the community repository and then refresh the ABS tree once more (by running "abs" command as root).

After that it's as simple as doing:

cd /var/abs/community/office/medit

followed by:

makepkg -i

as root.

Alternatively you could just wait until the package maintainer rebuilds it and use a different text editor in the meantime. In theory installing it using AUR should also do the trick, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know.

ramoneur · 2007-09-16 21:56:16

woah! alot of output after doing makepkg -i
thank you for the tip!
medit works perfect now

fwojciec · 2007-09-16 22:25:38

Glad it worked

ekerazha · 2007-09-20 14:58:22

I've this bug too and it should be solved. ABS is just a "workaround".

Lone_Wolf · 2007-09-21 08:43:52

ekerazha wrote:

I've this bug too and it should be solved. ABS is just a "workaround".

It IS solved.

pacman -Sy gcc-objc

see libojc missing after split of gcc SOLVED

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#1 2007-09-16 21:23:15

cant start medit (solved)

#2 2007-09-16 21:24:13

Re: cant start medit (solved)

#3 2007-09-16 21:31:30

Re: cant start medit (solved)

#4 2007-09-16 21:43:09

Re: cant start medit (solved)

#5 2007-09-16 21:56:16

Re: cant start medit (solved)

#6 2007-09-16 22:25:38

Re: cant start medit (solved)

#7 2007-09-20 14:58:22

Re: cant start medit (solved)

#8 2007-09-21 08:43:52

Re: cant start medit (solved)

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