On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:53:29 -0400 "Andrew J. Buehler" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am no longer able to launch geeqie. I do not remember exactly when it last > succeeded, but the cause of the failure seems apparent. > > $ geeqie > geeqie: error while loading shared libraries: libx265.so.209: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > Indeed, there is no such file on my system; libx265.so is provided by > libx265-215, and therefore unsurprisingly has SONAME of 215 rather than 209. I > do not see a libx265-209 in the available repositories - neither unstable, > testing, stable, nor even oldstable. I do see it on snapshot.debian.org; the > final x265 version which includes it seems to be 3.6-3, it seems to have gone > away with the switch to 4.1-1. > > ldd confirms that /{usr/,}bin/geeqie does reference libx265.so.209. > > I do not see any dependency from geeqie to any obvious libx265 package - > certainly not directly, and attempting to uninstall either libx265-15 or > libx265-dev did not want to uninstall geeqie as a dependency. > > This looks to me like both a need to rebuild geeqie for an updated dependency, > and an undeclared dependency (though where in the chain that dependency would > need to come from I am not certain). I am not entirely sure why geeqie would > need to use libx265, since I understand that to be a video format and geeqie > to be an image viewer, but I can easily believe that there is a valid reason > that I'm just not in a position to notice. > > I suspect, but do not have time to attempt to confirm, that the issue will > affect anyone who installs geeqie from trixie or from current testing (early > forky).
Thanks for your report - however, I cannot reproduce this. I have 2.5-8 running fine on three machines, two Trixie and one Sid - running ldd and grepping for libx265 on all those three gives > libx265.so.215 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libx265.so.215 (0x00007fc727c00000) so I suspect this is something on your side. Can anybody else reproduce this? If not, I'll close it as unreproducible, but I'll give it some time of course. Also, are you sure yuu are running this from the debian package - what does > which geeqie give? best /Andreas Rönnquist [email protected]
