[GNC] Libboost error upon upgrade to 20.04 from 19.10

[Tim Kallmer]

> The right fix is to get the Ubuntu packager to rebuild the package with
the new library versions

How do I do that?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:54 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 1, 2020, at 4:32 PM, Tim Kallmer <tkallmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I get this message now when trying to start GC from the command line:
> > "gnucash: error while loading shared libraries:
> libboost_locale.so.1.67.0:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
> >
> > I tried uninstalling my existing build of 3.8, then installing the
> > Ubuntu software center 3.8. Same error.
> >
> > I tried
> > sudo apt remove gnucash-common gnucash python3-gnucash
> > sudo apt autoremove
> >
> > Any ideas to try next?
>
> Boost has the unfortunate habit (shared with ICU) of embedding the release
> number in their shared library names regardless of compatibility. The
> libraries are generally compatible as long as they're built with the same
> compiler so you might be able to get away with symlinks to the libraries
> gnucash wants to link. For boost those will be libboost_date_time,
> libboost_filesystem, libboost_locale, and libboost_regex. The right fix is
> to get the Ubuntu packager to rebuild the package with the new library
> versions.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>