HUG says "Gtk library not found"

[anurup]

Hello,

I thought I could use common sense to solve this, but it looks like I have less common sense than I thought - or that common sense might not be enough!

I am compiling BaCON from source on a Ubuntu Mate system. hug.bac is include in the main source file. However, it keeps throwing a "Gtk library not found!" at runtime.

locate libgtk-x11-2.0.so

shows

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.32
So, I tried going back to the configure script and executing

./configure --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

My program compiles fine, but I keep getting the HUG error. It is becoming a little frustrating. Could someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[Pjot]

Hi Anurup,

There can be multiple reasons for such error.

- You have compiled BaCon in 64bit but the GTK library is in 32bit (or vv)

- The GTK libraries are not available in your LD path, you can check this with: ldconfig -p | grep libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

- Maybe you need to update your LD cache: ldconfig

- Maybe you ran into the obscure bug detected earlier by forum member Alex, the fix for this is available in the latest beta

Please let me know your results,

Peter

[anurup]

Thanks Pjot!

I double checked all the points in order as you had suggested - although I was fairly sure that they were not the reason.

It turns out that the beta tarball did the trick. I don't think that I have enough programming chops to understand the obscure bug that you refer to - but I am grateful for this speedy resolution. One observation though - might be an individual installation anomaly on the system that I was using, the window title didn't appear. Everything else worked.

My dad is a medical practitioner and I had written a GUI based patient record-keeping system in BaCON many years back. It needed a bit of a revamp and I had to get back to the source code.

My gratitude again for this wonderful project, and last but not least, for your assistance.

[alexfish]

Hi Anurup

I am still Looking for a possible reason as to why this can happen::

here looking at mptv and aka IPTV linux tv RE: LVM tvmasthead & mpv

Have you install anything related to the above

BR
Alex