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hey guys,

If i start blender i get this:

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/usr/share/blender/blender: error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.50: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i have ffmpeg installed via slapt-get and i still get that error how can i solve this ?

Thx in advance,

I have the static version installed and it works, maybe you can try that.

Was blender working previously?
Try "locate libavformat.so"

If you have a /lib/libavformat.so.51 or something similar, the library was upgraded.
The libavformat.so refers to a newer version instead. You can sometimes get away with creating a link from an older version wanted to the new version
such as libavformat.so.50 -> libavformat.so.

where can i get the static version and

no blender never worked but i dont have slackware for a long time

check this:

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slayeriq@abed:~$ locate libavformat.so
locate: fatal error: Could not find user database '/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db': No such file or directory

and i cant find /lib/libavformat.so.51

You do realize there are numerous disadvantages to statically linked pre-compiled binaries, especially for something like blender. All you need is ffmpeg ...

Install ffmpeg ... maybe from linuxpackages.

i downloaded the pkg for ffmpeg and i installed it with pkgtool. Only it didnt work and now i reinstalled it with gslapt. But blender still doesnt work

Is there a drawback other than the bigger size (for statically linked binaries)? I think it may even be the preferred way, to ensure uniformity in quality and output (e.g. Firefox Linux packages contain compiled-in Gtk/Glib libraries. This way, the developers don't need to worry about the Gtk/Glib version when debugging).

slayeriq, you can get the statically linked package from the Blender site of course :). The static package is about 1 MB larger than the other. Just unpack and run, it should work.

whats the difference between static version and normal

The static one has the libraries bundled in the binary file, that way, it doesn't need the .so files. This of course, gives a bigger binary size and when run in memory (but it's only one application...), which won't be a problem in current systems.

Bigger, more RAM used, slower. Of course on newer systems it won't affect you much.

To get it to compile (assuming you have same error) you might need to symlink:

libavformat.so -> libavformat.so.50

You might also need the OpenEXR libraries. have you run

Code:

ldd `which blender`

to see if that is the only library you are missing.

this is what i get

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slayeriq@abed:~$ ldd `which blender`
not a dynamic executable

Quote:

this is what i get

Code:

slayeriq@abed:~$ ldd `which blender`

not a dynamic executable

Looks like you are already running the static version.

I just downloaded and installed the dynamic version (2.42a), and here's what I get:

Code:

bash-3.1# ldd blender

        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)

        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7ee1000)

        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ecf000)

        libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7e37000)

        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7e25000)

        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb7d91000)

        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0xb7d18000)

        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7c4a000)

        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb7c42000)

        libutil.so.1 => /lib/tls/libutil.so.1 (0xb7c3e000)

        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7b0f000)

        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7aec000)

        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7ae8000)

        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7a2f000)

        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a26000)

        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7a18000)

        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7a14000)

        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7a0b000)

        libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0xb79b8000)

        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f23000)

        libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0xb7046000)

        libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0xb7044000)

        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6f76000)

I see no ffmpeg dependency. On the web page this file is titled

Linux i386 2.3.2, dynamic, FFMPEG, Python 2.4 (10.0 MB)

so I suppose it has ffmpeg compiled-in. Are you trying this latest version?

where can i get your version