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

Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:51:46 +0200

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"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

No, GTK 2 - the version referenced in the error message - has no Wayland
support.

If it did, it'd not be something that manifests as an error loading a
dependency of Emacs, because GTK would be loading that backend
separately and printing its own error.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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