Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

Johan Myréen <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:59:08 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
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On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 at 17:54, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >   emacs-24.x/emacs-24.1/src/emacs: error while loading shared libraries:
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
> Is it possible that the new version of the OS or gtk remvoed X11 support
> for Wayland?


I think it is more likely the OS dropped GTK-2 because no OS package uses
GTK-2 anymore.