[SOLVED] Boost 1.78 update broke AlienBob's Libreoffice package

mfoley · 01-30-2022, 11:12 PM

I ran into this problem today as well. I'm glad there's an interim solution, but I must not be smart enough to know how to do it. I did:

Code:

wget "http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost-compat/pkg/current/boost-compat-1.78-i586-1alien.txz"
installpkg boost-compat-1.78-i586-1alien.txz

I still get "error while loading shared libraries: libboost_locale.so.1.77.0". I did reboot.

What am I missing?

Never mind - as soon as I posted this reply I noticed that I used the 32bit package. I removed that and did:

Code:

wget "http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost-compat/pkg64/current/boost-compat-1.78-x86_64-1alien.txz"
installpkg boost-compat-1.78-x86_64-1alien.txz

and that worked. Didn't have to reboot. Sorry for the noise.

marnold · 01-31-2022, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfoley

Didn't have to reboot. Sorry for the noise.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I've done that. I seemingly exhaust all possibilities and then find the solution moments after posting on here. Keeps you humble, I guess.

kfanyo · 02-01-2022, 02:19 PM

Hi, All,

I started one of the Libreoffice programs in a terminal and got the complaint that it couldn't load libboost-1.77.0.

As of Slackware distro kernel version 5.15.17, libboost is version 1.78.

On the hunch that Libreoffice is searching for a specific version number (file) and not a symlink, I installed 1.77 from the 5.15.16 distro and then re-installed 1.78 to make the symlinks current again, and, voila, Libreoffice returned, seemingly no worse for wear. 1.77 and 1.78 seem to be cohabiting well since, I presume, all other programs will use the symlinks which continue to point to version 1.78.

HTH,

Ken

kfanyo · 02-01-2022, 02:58 PM

Hi, All,

I started one of the Libreoffice programs in a terminal and got the complaint that it couldn't load libboost-1.77.0.

As of Slackware distro kernel version 5.15.17, libboost is version 1.78.

On the hunch that Libreoffice is searching for a specific version number (file) and not a symlink, I installed 1.77 from the 5.15.16 distro and then re-installed 1.78 to make the symlinks current again, and, voila, Libreoffice returned, seemingly no worse for wear. 1.77 and 1.78 seem to be cohabiting well since, I presume, all other programs will use the symlinks which continue to point to version 1.78.

HTH,

Ken

Windu · 02-01-2022, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kfanyo

Hi, All,

I started one of the Libreoffice programs in a terminal and got the complaint that it couldn't load libboost-1.77.0.

As of Slackware distro kernel version 5.15.17, libboost is version 1.78.

On the hunch that Libreoffice is searching for a specific version number (file) and not a symlink, I installed 1.77 from the 5.15.16 distro and then re-installed 1.78 to make the symlinks current again, and, voila, Libreoffice returned, seemingly no worse for wear. 1.77 and 1.78 seem to be cohabiting well since, I presume, all other programs will use the symlinks which continue to point to version 1.78.

HTH,

Ken

You have now two boost programs installed and everytime you run slackpkg it will complain about that.
A more future-proof solution was given one post above yours:

Code:

wget "http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost-compat/pkg64/current/boost-compat-1.78-x86_64-1alien.txz"
installpkg boost-compat-1.78-x86_64-1alien.txz

kfanyo · 02-01-2022, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Windu

You have now two boost programs installed and everytime you run slackpkg it will complain about that.
A more future-proof solution was given one post above yours:

Code:

wget "http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost-compat/pkg64/current/boost-compat-1.78-x86_64-1alien.txz"
installpkg boost-compat-1.78-x86_64-1alien.txz

If you look inside boost-compat, you'll see it installs Boost versions 1.73, I think, to 1.78.

I agree with converting all the rpms to tgz. Seems like the best solution. A script should be pretty easy to write.

Thanks...

Windu · 02-01-2022, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kfanyo

If you look inside boost-compat, you'll see it installs Boost versions 1.73, I think, to 1.78.

I agree with converting all the rpms to tgz. Seems like the best solution. A script should be pretty easy to write.

Thanks...

The RPMs are not built on Slackware, Bob knows what incompatibilities they bring.

Minime_2003 · 02-01-2022, 05:12 PM

It´s a easy fix...all you have to do is to link the libboost version to libboost like this:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_locale.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_locale.so.1.77.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_iostreams.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_iostreams.so.1.77.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.77.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_system.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_system.so.1.77.0

drumz · 02-01-2022, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minime_2003

It´s a easy fix...all you have to do is to link the libboost version to libboost like this:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_locale.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_locale.so.1.77.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_iostreams.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_iostreams.so.1.77.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.77.0
ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_system.so.1.78.0 /usr/lib64/libboost_system.so.1.77.0

libboost doesn't guarantee backwards compatibility. Doing this might cause problems.

Minime_2003 · 02-01-2022, 11:13 PM

Works to resolve the issue at the moment anyway, other option would be to rebuild Libreoffice.
Or wait and hope AlienBob does this...