Installing libexpat0 instead of libexpat1

Question

I'm trying to run BitWise IM on Ubuntu but every time I run the program I get the following message:

./BitWise: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I try to install libexpat but it installs libexpat1 which doesn't seem to help. I also tried using apt-cache search and I don't see any libexpat0. How can I install libexpat.so.0?

Solution

There is no package providing libexpat.so.0 library but there is libexpat-dev package that provides libexpat.so.1, so you can install the package and then create a symbolic link.

As the BitWise is 32 bit, at first you need to install 32 bit of the libexpat-dev package:

sudo apt-get install libexpat-dev:i386

Now you can create a symbolic link making libexpat.so.0 as the link name and libexpat.so.1 as the target:

sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0

Comments

[heemayl]

Which Ubuntu release are you on?

[Edgar Magallon]

@heemayl I have 14.04

[heemayl]

There is no package providing libexpat.so.0 ..you can install libexpat1-dev which provides libexpat1.so.1 and then create a symlink sudo ln -s /lib/"$(arch)"-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 /lib/"$(arch)"-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0 ..should work..

[Edgar Magallon]

no luck same message

[heemayl]

Is the package you want to install 64 bit or 32 bit?

[Edgar Magallon]

It doesn't specify so I'm guessing 32 bitwiseim.com/download.php

[Steven C. Howell]

For CatDCD, supplied with VMD, I had to install libexpat1 then create a soft link for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0 pointing to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1. This is the first command: sudo apt install libexpat1 This is the second command: sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0