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Lanson · 05-31-2013, 03:55 AM

Hello, first i want to thank you for this fine program.

It was running smooth til todays update =0.9.33.
On my standard Ubuntu 12.04 the installation quit with error missing file
"libffi.so.5".
On my system only "libffi.so.4" and "libffi.so.6" can be found.
So calibre will not run.

I don't know whether this is an adequate solution,
but for now it helps to set a symbolic link to "libffi.so.5" by entering the line:

Code:

 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.5

This works on 32bit system. for 64bit the line has to be adapted.

Bye

Lanson

05-31-2013, 03:55 AM	#1
Lanson Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2013 Device: Cybook Odyssey	Calibre 0.9.33 refuses to start with Ubuntu 12.04LTS, missing file =>SOLVED Hello, first i want to thank you for this fine program. It was running smooth til todays update =0.9.33. On my standard Ubuntu 12.04 the installation quit with error missing file "libffi.so.5". On my system only "libffi.so.4" and "libffi.so.6" can be found. So calibre will not run. I don't know whether this is an adequate solution, but for now it helps to set a symbolic link to "libffi.so.5" by entering the line: Code: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.5 This works on 32bit system. for 64bit the line has to be adapted. Bye Lanson Last edited by Lanson; 05-31-2013 at 04:27 AM.