dosbox libflac.so.4 problem
 

I'm trying to get dosbox running. Whether I compile it myself or I get it from debian, I get the same problem when I try to start it:

dosbox: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

running mepis-sid

Any ideas?

Google for libFLAC.so.4: cannot open shared object file
Please, always, always, search google before posting here, or anywhere for that matter.
It wastes everyones time, takes up space, and repeats the same freely available answers over and over.

I spent about 25 minutes googling it at first. I found pages that told me to re-install various packages. Some of them I was able to but others required I uninstall zillions of other important-looking packages. None of them made any difference so i put it down for awhile.

I couldn't sleep last night so I put another couple of google hours into it and came up with zilch.

I was hoping to hear something like - yeah, there's a problem with sid's libflac that will be addressed soon or whatever.

Anyhow, thanks for the useless post.

what version of FLAC do you have installed on your machine and is it in your lib path?

I have libflac++2c102 1.1.1-1
libflac4 1.1.1-1
liboggflac++0c102 1.1.1-3
liboggflac 1.1.0-11

Those are all the packages I have installed that have "flac" in them.

I notice now when I start synaptic that I have a broken package. It tells me to use the "broken" filter to find it. I enable that filter but everything is still shown. I think I messed up something in my adventures last night.

As a side question, how do you find out which package is broken because I can't get the "broken" filter to work. Grr. I'm sinking.

I reinstalled a bunch of packages after synaptic removed them for some reason and everything seems to be working now. Must have been a broken package or something.

Please note that if you spent 25 minutes googling those words that I gave you must surely have come across the first post.

And the first reply had in it:

> > amarokapp: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.4: cannot

And how the person solved it.

Runnig ldconfig would have fixed your problem, and yes it was a 'broken' pacakge, it simply didn't create the symmlink.

So no, it was not a useless post, you should have searched the keywords I gave you and you would have solved your issue easily.

I did in fact come across a post that asked me to do 2 or 3 steps in order. One of those steps was indeed ldconfig. My computer sat there for a long time after that command so I thought something might actually be happening.

The result was that nothing changed. I still had a problem. In fact, I remember that this was the final process I attempted in my first 25-minute attempt to solve this problem.

Later that night, resinstalling package after package with different options like --force and so on finally got me to the goal line.

I don't feal like bickering about this anymore. If you have helped others with Linux in the past. That's great.

Re: dosbox libflac.so.4 problem
 

I myself try not to install anything anymore without going through either apt-get or yum depending upon the distro I'm working with.


in /etc/apt/sources.list I comment out all of the unstable and development repositories before saving that file and doing:

apt-get update

then

apt-get install <pkg>