Hi Matabele OK, I'm struggling a little to understand how to update the readme.md for TiddlyDesktop to reflect the information that you're providing.
> This is so very, very wrong. What's wrong? The existing advice in the readme? It would be incredibly helpful if you were able to prepare a pull request for TiddlyDesktop/readme.md that captures the best advice? Many thanks Jeremy On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Matabele <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Sorry, of course the paths to the libraries will also differ on other > systems, for example: > > "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1" # Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint -- 64bit > "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1" # Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint -- 32bit > "/usr/lib64/libudev.so.1" # SUSE, Fedora -- 64bit > "/usr/lib/libudev.so.1" # Arch, Fedora 32bit > > A search for libudev.so.1 should locate the relevant library -- on Ubuntu: > sudo locate libudev.so.1 > > This is a hack -- some would prefer a more rigorous solution: > > This is so very, very wrong. If you want libudev.so.0, you need to >> download the source and build it, symlinking it to a lib with a different >> ABI is just asking for trouble. >> > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libudev.so.0/ > > > regards > > > > On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 4:27:29 PM UTC+2, Matabele wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Should work as a temporary fix for most of the new linux distros where >> udev.so.0 has been replaced with udev.so.1 >> >> The alternative is to compile node webkit from scratch (or to edit the >> binary with ghex): >> https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0 >> >> <https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0%20> >> >> I think the static link fix is easier for most users and I don't see this >> causing problems on the system (on some systems a root console is preferred >> to sudo -- linux users should know this.) >> >> regards >> >> On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:29:14 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>> >>> Hi Matabele >>> >>> Thanks for this. Would this solution work for all users? Should it >>> replace the fix for #14 that is in the current TiddlyDesktop readme, and >>> discussed on the ticket: >>> >>> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop/issues/14 >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Jeremy >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Matabele <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Found this fix for TiddlyDesktop on Ubuntu based systems -- much easier >>>> than editing the Node Webkit runtime: >>>> >>>> If you see this error: >>>> >>>> ./nw: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open >>>> shared object file: No such file or directory >>>> >>>> Fix this on a 64-bit system: >>>> >>>> sudo ln -sf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 >>>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0 >>>> >>>> On a 32-bit system: >>>> >>>> sudo ln -sf /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 >>>> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeremy Ruston >>> mailto:[email protected] >>> >> -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
