Re: libqscintilla2.so.11: No such file or directory

[eric]

On 08/28/2017 12:24 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:56:26 +0200, oxy wrote:
> > sudo apt-get install octave
> > /usr/local/libexec/octave/4.0.1/exec/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/octave-gui:
> > error while loading shared libraries: libqscintilla2.so.11: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > It might be related to the ubuntu upgrade from 12.04 to 16.04 and
> > changes in the PPA.
> > I do know know.
>
> The path "/usr/local" indicates that you are running an Octave that you
> compiled yourself and installed in /usr/local. You may have also
> installed Octave from the Ubuntu repositories or a PPA, which is
> installed in /usr.
>
> I guess that you compiled Octave against an old version of Qscintilla,
> then upgraded your system, and are still trying to run the self-compiled
> Octave. Try deleting it from /usr/local entirely.
>
>
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oxy,

Did you try the command sudo ldconfig to update your library path?

Might be worth a try.

Good Luck,

Eric