qosmic: error while loading shared libraries: liblua-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Running qosmic from terminal
2. Won't open from menu Icon
3. I have liblua-5.1

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I get an error prompt which reads "eric@demonlung:~$ qosmic
qosmic: error while loading shared libraries: liblua-5.1.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using the newest release on Ubuntu 8.10

Please provide any additional information below.
I just want qosmic to work, why is this so difficult?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hatec...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2009 at 10:44

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the version is 1.4.2 sorry for not including that.

Original comment by hatec...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2009 at 10:48

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This isn't a problem with qosmic.  There is something amiss with your lua 
installation
or with the linker/loader setup that is causing some confusion.

The quick fix is to create the liblua-5.1.so file yourself.  You can easily do 
this by
first locating the liblua-5.1.so.5.1.x file where "x" is the minor version 
number (it
may be 1,2, or 3).  This file is usually located in /usr/lib, /usr/lib64, or 
some
variation of this path.  Then enter the following commands as root into your 
terminal:

cd /usr/lib    ;# (or wherever liblua is installed)
ln -s ./liblua-5.1.so.5.1.x liblua-5.1.so  ;# create a symlink

Then try to run qosmic again.

If your not comfortable doing this then I encourage you to seek support from the
Ubuntu community.  This brings me to your last comment.

This difficulty can be avoided if someone is willing to make an effort to 
produce an
Ubuntu package for qosmic.  Then installing qosmic would be as easy as 
installing any
other system package using apt (or whatever the tool is called).  I'm 
encouraging
Ubuntu users to lobby their community for a package.

Original comment by bit...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2009 at 3:22

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I have the same problem. The solution suggested above does not help, because 
there is
noch such file (liblua-5.1.so.5.1.x) anywhere on my system. lua5.1 is 
installed, but
the only related library I could find is libluaengine.so (located in
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines).

Original comment by Timemast...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2009 at 5:16

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I've taken a look at the ubuntu packages for intrepid.  It looks like you need 
to have 
both liblua5.1-0 and liblua5.1-0-dev packages installed in order to compile.  
The
lua5.1-0 package doesn't contain the runtime libraries needed to compile.  Can 
you
confirm that both of these packages are installed?

Original comment by bit...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2009 at 12:03

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Hello, same problem here with Ubuntu intrepid, i have both library installed

Original comment by johann.l...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2009 at 3:56

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Original comment by bit...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2009 at 1:00

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