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Pankaj Patel avatar Ubuntu

How to fix synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libxapian.so.30: cannot open shared?

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Pankaj Patel

System Info: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 64bit, gnome 3.36.8, windowing system X11 RAM 15GB, SSD 500GB, Intel i5

Just installed synaptic but could not run it. I am not sure why it kept looking for libxapian.so.30 when there is libxapian.so in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu folder. Also why libxapian.so is appended with ".30".

Kindly help me fix it. I am posting this for synaptic but this is happening with almost all newly installed apps.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libept1.6.0
Suggested packages:
  dwww menu deborphan
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libept1.6.0 synaptic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 701 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,663 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libept1.6.0 amd64 1.1+nmu3ubuntu3 [79.6 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 synaptic amd64 0.84.6ubuntu5 [622 kB]
Fetched 701 kB in 4s (192 kB/s)   
Selecting previously unselected package libept1.6.0:amd64.
(Reading database ... 388385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libept1.6.0_1.1+nmu3ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libept1.6.0:amd64 (1.1+nmu3ubuntu3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package synaptic.
Preparing to unpack .../synaptic_0.84.6ubuntu5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking synaptic (0.84.6ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libept1.6.0:amd64 (1.1+nmu3ubuntu3) ...
Setting up synaptic (0.84.6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
user@host:~$ synaptic
synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libxapian.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
user@host:~$ ^C
user@host:~$ sudo updatedb
user@host:~$ locate libxapian.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so
user@host:~$ ```

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N0rbert avatar Ubuntu
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N0rbert

You have to reinstall the proper library from official Ubuntu package by using commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxapian30 libxapian-dev

and then retry running Synaptic.

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Pankaj Patel
Thanks buddy, it fixed the issue. Actually I accidentally removed /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu folder. to resolve this I copied same folder from liveusb drive. probably because of this libraries are missing. Is there any way to list all missing library and than download them?
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You have to try the following answer - https://askubuntu.com/a/987824/66509 .
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