On Mon, 2024-07-01 at 16:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > evolution: error while loading shared libraries: > > > libgsttranscoder- > > > 1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > > > directory > > > > > > Evolution did work on that system long before those gstreamer > > > plugins > > > were ever installed. And it works again after reinstalling > > > them. It's > > > just bonkers. > > > > > > It's because of these kind of cascading failures that I avoid > > > installing anything extra unless I'm quite sure I'll really need > > > it, > > > because removing something can become next to impossible. > > Lukas Middendorf: > > It's likely some update of the evolution package that makes it > > depend on > > the gstreamer plugins now (that error proves that the dependency is > > real). You could not have avoided that by not installing the > > gstreamer > > plugins. Installing or updating evolution would have forced you to > > install the gstreamer plugins. > > Much more likely that it's a false dependency. The erased and > replaced > packages were not from a Fedora repo.
Evolution is part of the Gnome DE and uses GTK libraries, so the dependency could come from there rather than Evo itself. There is also a Flatpak version which would presumably avoided this issue, but that's not to everyone's liking. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
