Installed Apps Not Working

General system Newbie
#1

Hello all,

I am new to Endeavour but not to Linux. however I am mostly a point-and-click guy with little experience of the terminal (one of the reasons I switched to Endeavour).

I used the pacman command to install several programs (Signal, Telegram and Chromuim).

It all seemed to go fine and the installed programmes appear on my launcher - however they do not start when I click them. I also tried running them from the terminal - same problem.

Am I not doing something I should have done?

I’m running endeavour on a Thinkpad X240.

Thank you :slight_smile:

#2

Hello @philco
What happens when you try to launch them from the terminal? Is there not any error messages you can show?

Edit: not sure how you installed them but here are the commands.

sudo pacman -S chromium

sudo pacman -S signal-desktop

sudo pacman -S telegram-desktop

#3

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I used exactly those commands to install and they appear to have installed correctly. They are listed in the app list as you would expect. but when I click on them nothing happens.

When I try to run signal-desktop in the terminal I get: electron: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

(I presume t is me messing up here :slight_smile:)

#4

Try sudo pacman -Syu first if you haven’t already

#5

Thank you @Tasia91 - I tried that and it seemed to install something or run a process.

Still won’t run the apps.

Thank you though :slight_smile:

#6

/usr/lib/libicui18n.so.67
is included in package icu from core repository:
sudo pacman -S icu

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.67
/usr/lib/libicui18n.so.67 is owned by icu 67.1-

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#7

You beat me to it. :+1:

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#8

Hi @joekamprad -

I ran the above command in the terminal and lost the launch button. I re-booted the machine but when I entered the password it just hung on a black screen with a cursor in the top right corner.

I booted again with the same result. I’m typing this on another PC.

Any idea how I can fix this or is it FUBAR?

#9

strange… this is mostly installed on every system icu is only International Components for Unicode

So must be something else may you do uninstall something before ? may remove something needed for starting X or similar accidentally. Not FuBar … if you have EndeavourOS usb stick at hand… or try first to login from tty2 [Ctrl+alt+F2] if this shows a login prompt you can reinstall what is missing.

What DE (Desktop Environment) are you using?

If you can not login you can arch-chroot into system after booting installer usb // ISO:

Or boot without try to start Desktop Environment and DM (login manager):

if you are able to login to installed system in one way or the other, you can simple reinstall your Desktop:

#10

Hi @joekamprad,

No, I didn’t uninstall anything or change anything. I was just trying to sort this issue.

I will try your other suggestions. Hopefully I will be able to get my desktop back. I’m using the themed Xfce desktop.

Thank you.

#11

It all got a bit too complex for me so I just re-installed.

This time I installed Libre Office and Chromium through the Welcome dialog and, again, neither are working.

All of the pre-installed software seems to be operating as expected and when I try to add new apps the install process shows every indication of normal operation.

Any help would be appreciated.

I’m beginning to think it’s a problem with my laptop. However it was fine with Ubuntu.

#12

Does it still give the same error about libicui18n.so.67? Because as @joekamprad said the file is owned by icu. So the command he gave was to install icu.

sudo pacman -S icu

Then he gave you the command which asks query ownership of the file.
pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libicu18n.so.67

It should report /usr/lib/libicu18n.so.67 is owned by icu 67.1-

icu needs to be installed so we needed to confirm that it is.

#13

Hi @ricklinux,

Thank for picking this up.

I haven’t installed signal this time but I did install chromium through the welcome dialog.

When I try to run it I get: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I typed: pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.67

And got: error: No package owns /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.67

#14

hello, can you put us a screenshot to see the errors you tell thank you

#15

I installed the three software in three different ways: chromium with the welcome interface, signal with the terminal and telegram with pamac-aur-git, I had no problem or error , on vm

#16

Hi @JR29, yes when I first installed I used the welcome dialog to install Libre Office and Chrmium and pacman to install signal and Telegram. None of them worked.

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#18 

pacman -Qs icu

should look like this:

pacman -Qs icu
local/harfbuzz-icu 2.6.5-2
    OpenType text shaping engine (ICU integration)
local/icu 67.1-1
    International Components for Unicode library
[joe@t-60 ~]$

seems it is again not installed… is system up to date?
sudo pacman -Syyu will make this sure…

#19

@joekamprad I tried to update as you suggested but it failed.

I also tried via the welcome dialog but that failed too.

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#20

pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib*/p11-kit-trust.so

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