Since today’s software update otter-browser will not start…
]$ otter-browser
otter-browser: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.76: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[ion@ion-desk ~]$
Where can I download this .so file for pacman? Thanks in advance.
Package icu.
sudo pacman -Syu icu
otter-browser is an AUR package, and it was built on your system with libraries from a dependency that has been updated - in this case the repo package icu has been updated, and icu provides libicui18n.so.xx. Your AUR package is looking for the older version that it was built with.
The solution is to perform a cleanbuild of the package. There are several ways to do this; probably the simplest is to simply answer A when yay prompts if you want to cleanbuild the package:
yay -S otter-browser
It will ask “Packages to cleanBuild?” - answer A (for All).
Even if you succeed in building it on your system with the new libraries, I would not personally use this browser which seems haven’t seen a new release for over three years.
Thanks for the advice, but after a long process the installation failed with…
-> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
otter-browser - exit status 4
But no packages named. It looks like I will have to do more to get it working. But in reply to the next message, I use otter because I could not find another browser to run without java active.
You will need to do one of two things:
1 - Check what failed during the build process (it will be in the terminal output) and try to correct that
– or –
2 - Wait for the AUR package to be fixed and updated. The package seems to have an active maintainer (the package was updated a few months ago), so hopefully you won’t have to wait very long.
I appreciate your concern and I would prefer not to use it if I had another browser that is java free. I use Firefox, Opera, and Brave browsers, but could not get any of them to behave the way otter does. Could you recommend a browser for me?
Thanks for the advice. Yes checking through the build takes a little longer. I will try to work it out. But I wouldn’t mind switching to another browser if it does what I want.
No, I’m afraid I don’t have any recommendations. 