[CLOSED] Ubuntu 13.04 (64 bit) won't launch Brackets, libudev.so.0 error

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Issue by Garbee
Friday Aug 09, 2013 at 12:33 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#4720

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I downloaded the .deb version (auto-recommended by the page) from the official download page to my system. It is Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. I then executed sudo dpkg -i brackets-sprint-28-LINUX64.deb for it. From there it appeared to install just fine without any extra dependencies needed. I then went to execute brackets from my shell, and I am getting the following error:

/usr/lib/brackets/Brackets: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This error is shown whether I am running it directly, trying to open a file, or even using the --help flag.

Is there any information I am leaving out that is useful?

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Comment by thefirstofthe300
Friday Aug 09, 2013 at 17:45 GMT

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I had this problem and just linked the existing libudev.so.* to lib.udev.so.0.

PS @jasonsanjose I tried installing libudev0 using apt-get and it appears to be missing. I think we will need to somehow link the existing libudev to libudev.so.0.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Friday Aug 09, 2013 at 18:05 GMT

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Oops. Deleted my prior comment, bad workaround. Seems like node-webkit (also based on CEF) has the same issue: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0.

I'll investigate further to see what we can do for Brackets.

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Comment by Garbee
Friday Aug 09, 2013 at 18:31 GMT

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Awesome@DaBungalow. I just confirmed that in my case going into /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and then executing ln -s libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0 is the fix for manually getting the current sprint to work.

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Comment by aurangzaib
Saturday Aug 10, 2013 at 12:06 GMT

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for Ubuntu 13.04 32bit :
sudo apt-get install libudev1 && cd /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ && sudo ln -s libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0

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Comment by thefirstofthe300
Saturday Aug 10, 2013 at 19:15 GMT

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Yup. It helps to have libudev1 installed. :)

On 8/10/13, Aurangzaib [email protected] wrote:

for Ubuntu 13.04 32bit :
sudo apt-get install libudev1 && cd /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ && sudo ln -s
libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0

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Comment by opensas
Tuesday Aug 13, 2013 at 03:28 GMT

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just a +1 to confirm the issue, and the solution proposed for node+webkit

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0

in that article there's also an explanation on how to fix the .deb file

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Comment by kapcom01
Thursday Aug 15, 2013 at 14:15 GMT

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This workouround worked for me too.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Friday Aug 16, 2013 at 21:30 GMT

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I fixed this in the sprint 29 build. Waiting to hear more feedback before closing.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Friday Aug 16, 2013 at 21:42 GMT

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@Garbee Can you try the sprint 29 build? We're now using the same technique that the google-chrome debian package uses to work around this problem.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Friday Aug 16, 2013 at 22:21 GMT

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Unfortunately, I'm seeing more reports of this issue with sprint 29.@DavidBruant filed a duplicate bug #4799 and@erichstark filed a duplicate in #4785.

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Comment by kapcom01
Friday Aug 16, 2013 at 23:46 GMT

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with sprint 29 for me (ubuntu 13.04 32bit) the problem is exactly the same. i have to: cd /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ && sudo ln -s libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0

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Comment by emyller
Saturday Aug 17, 2013 at 22:59 GMT

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Problem still exists in Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. Linking libudev.so.1 to libudev.so.0 inside /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu works for me.

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Comment by WhyNotHugo
Tuesday Aug 20, 2013 at 02:16 GMT

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Not just an Ubuntu issue, reproducible on ArchLinux, as well as a few other up-to-date distros.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Tuesday Aug 20, 2013 at 18:39 GMT

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There's a test build linked from adobe/brackets-shell#305 that should fix the dependency issues.

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Comment by Garbee
Tuesday Aug 20, 2013 at 23:33 GMT

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@jasonsanjose I just tested the fixed build you linked to on 13.04 (64bit) and it is working flawlessly.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Wednesday Aug 21, 2013 at 01:11 GMT

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Closing. Fixed in adobe/brackets-shell#305.

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Comment by eduardoklosowski
Wednesday Mar 19, 2014 at 20:18 GMT

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I have same problem with Sprint 37 on Debian testing (jessie). If I install libudev0 from stable (wheezy) works without problens.

In ldd command, libudev.so.0 list has "not found", but install package because in depends is "libudev0 (>= 147) | libudev1 (>= 198)" and libudev1 is installed and listed in ldd output.

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Comment by vcfvct
Friday Oct 16, 2015 at 03:50 GMT

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The problem still exist in Ubuntu 15.04 and brackets 1.5.
@emyller and@aurangzaib 's solutions work for 32bit and 64bit ubuntu.