Re: Audacity error on xubuntu 16.04

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 08:46:28PM -0700, stan wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:26:51 +0000
> Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:53:33PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Both systems say the following:-
> > > 
> > >     chris$ ldd /usr/bin/audacity | grep -i soundtouch
> > >         libSoundTouch.so.1
> > > => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSoundTouch.so.1 (0x00007f70f87fd000)
> > > 
> > > So why is one system failing with:-
> > > 
> > > audacity: error while loading shared libraries: libSoundTouch.so.0:
> > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
> > > 
> > > since accoring to ldd it shouldn't be trying to load
> > > libSoundTouch.so.0.
> > > 
> > > Oh well, the workaround in the previous E-Mail works.
> > >   
> > It's very curious, I can see no reason whatsoever for the audacity on
> > the 'bad' system to ask for libSoundTouch.so.0, searching for name
> > using the 'strings' command produces the following:-
> > 
> >     chris$ strings /usr/bin/audacity | grep libSound
> >     libSoundTouch.so.1
> >     chris$ 
> > 
> > The two binaries (/usr/bin/audacity) are identical.
> > 
> > 
> > I have also compared the system call sequence using ptrace and the two
> > systems are near enough identical except that the 'bad' one loads
> > libSoundTouch.so.0.  However there is a difference here, the 'good'
> > one goes straight to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSoundTouch.so.1
> > whereas the 'bad' one searches through the whole series of possible
> > library locations before finding libSoundTouch.so.0.
> > 
> This is really bizarre.  Is it possible that you have an old version
> dependent on .0 in /usr/local, and that /usr/local is before /usr/bin
> in your $PATH? That would cause this error, as it looked for the
> earlier version.
> 
Aaarrrggghhh!!!  Why didn't I think of that?  I have a locally built
Audacity in /usr/local/bin which I built before 2.1.2 was in the
xubuntu repositories (there was a particular bug I needed to avoid).

Thank you!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green

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