I have been using veracrypt for ages but I now get the following error:
roger@roger-pc ~ % sudo veracrypt
veracrypt: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Searching around, I found other posts such as this one: on tenacity-git
tenacity: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_baseu-3.1.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So I have tried reinstalling veracrypt but this doesn’t change anything, and I have tried to install the library …
roger@roger-pc ~ % yay -Ss libwx_baseu-3.0
but it doesn’t seem to be available (it is available from Ubuntu, because that’s the advice over there).
Something you could try is to download the DEB package from:
into some directory, extract it and move the files manually into the appropriate directories. Though this might work, perhaps not a viable solution in the long run. I’m not sure.
But if you cannot get it from the official arch repos, the AUR or build it yourself, this could be worth a shot.
PS. I see you are in a root shell, performing things that don’t need elevated privilege. For minimizing the risk of accidentally damage something on your system, I would just use sudo to get root only when it is necessary.
Quite right. I very rarely use root. It seems that I have too recent a version of wxgt3. My version of veracrypt is the same as yours but I have libwx_baseu-3.1.so.6 installed. So I suppose I need to down-grade wxWidgets. Many thanks for your help.
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I will have to think about how I came to have this version. I expect it came as a dependency from something else, or something didn’t work and I spotted a bleeding edge version which cured that. I have been trying to use gtk-glade for ham-fisted GUI developments. Anyway, many thanks!! I program in Julia so sometimes there’s a dependency from some plotting package.
Here are the dependencies affected by its removal:
roger@roger-pc ~ % yay -R wxgtk3
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing wxgtk3 breaks dependency 'wxgtk3' required by erlang
:: removing wxgtk3 breaks dependency 'wxgtk3>=3.0' required by veracrypt
:: removing wxgtk3 breaks dependency 'wxgtk3' required by wxmaxima
So I removed all three and then removed wxgtk3. Did a yay -Sc to clear the caches. Installed veracrypt, happily observing it pulled down the wxgtk3 dependencies it needed.
But nothing has changed! Still the same error. I’m reluctant to just delete the offending libraries because I don’t know what will break if I do, or indeed, whether the correct versions will be pulled down when I repeat the above.
$ pacman -Qs wxgtk-common
local/wxgtk-common 3.0.5.1-3
Common libraries and headers for wxgtk2 and wxgtk3
Query similar name in upstream pacman DB
$ pacman -Ss wxgtk-common
extra/wxgtk-common 3.0.5.1-3 [installed]
Common libraries and headers for wxgtk2 and wxgtk3
chaotic-aur/wxcommon-dev-light 3.1.6-1
wxWidgets common & base. Development branch (GNOME/GStreamer free!)
Now you have all the available info to solve your issue.
On Topic, you may have manually installed (without pacman) something similar in other than standard package’s path, included in your $PATH, example /usr/local/, /opt/, /usr/lib32/, $HOME/.local/ or other (echo $PATH)
You guys are amazing. Many thanks! I had wxgtk-common-dev installed which pulled the newer libraries that stopped veracrypt from working. It’s all fine and dandy now.
Still the same error. I’m reluctant to just delete the offending libraries because I don’t know what will break if I do, or indeed, whether the correct versions will be pulled down when I repeat the above.
