error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

im getting this error when trying to run

vmware-vcenter-converter

/usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/converter-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

locate libXinerama

result as following

 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libXinerama.so.1/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/lib/lib/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/lib/lib/libXinerama.so.1/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1.0.0

my box arch : Ubuntu 13

uname -a
 3.11.0-14-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 17:04:55 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

i was trying to install different package to fix this issue , no luck

Any tips to fix missing shared libs

Solution 1

From the output of ldd, it would seem that converter-gui is running on 32-bit libs.
You will need to install the 32bit version of all the libs missing from the ldd output

libvmomi.so.1.2 => not found
libvmacore.so.1.2 => not found
libtypes.so => not found
libXinerama.so.1 => not found
libexpat.so.0 => not found
libConverterWizard.so => not found
libconverterLogicTypes.so => not found
libconverterTypes.so => not found

Which should just involve a apt-get install for xinerama and expat
apt-get install libxinerama1:i386 and apt-get install libexpat1:i386

If you have the rest of the missing libs on the system already, you'll need to point the program to the location where the libs are located with export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/i386/vm/libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Solution 2

It seems like libXinerama.so.1 is in your system, but not in the folder vmware is looking for it. Have you tried a link?

    ln /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/libXinerama.so.1

However, you can give us more info doing this:

    ls -ld /usr/ /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
    ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1

Solution 3

Just do

apt install libxinerama1

Comments

[Nikos C.]

Shouldn't you try to locate libXinerama.so.1 instead of libXcursor.so.1?

[Marco DonJuan]

its type i copied wrong ouput , i was trying libXinerama already but no luck

[Nikos C.]

Try installing the "libxinerama1" package with sudo apt-get install libxinerama1.

[Marco DonJuan]

already did , libxinerama1 is already the newest version.

[Nikos C.]

Could it be that you're using the 32-bit version of VMware even though you're on a 64-bit Ubuntu? If yes, then apt-get install libxinerama1:i386 and try again. Or install the 64-bit version of VMware instead.

[Lawrence]

What's the output of ldd /usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/converter-gui ?

[Marco DonJuan]

i did , and ouput as : ln /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/converter-gui/l‌​ibXinerama.so.1 ln: accessing ‘/usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/converter-gui/‌​libXinerama.so.1’: Not a directory

[Admin]

yeah, sorry, I mean ln /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/libXinerama.so.‌​1

[Admin]

you can give us more info doing this ls -ld /usr/ /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

[Marco DonJuan]

no luck didnot work

[Marco DonJuan]

drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 16 22:58 /usr/ drwxr-xr-x 242 root root 36864 Dec 15 16:02 /usr/lib/ drwxr-xr-x 104 root root 69632 Dec 15 16:02 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

[Admin]

directories' permissions are ok. Check the library ones with ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1

[Marco DonJuan]

lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 20 Oct 20 16:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 -> libXinerama.so.1.0.0

[manolo]

as your script runs ok if you invoke it, i think chown YOURUSERNAME filebot.sh and chmod u+s,a+x filebot.sh worth a try.

[Sundar]

If you are on OpenSUSE, the package name is libXinerama-32bit