Arch Linux-based systems: "uxplay: error while loading shared libraries: libplist-2.0.so.3: ...No such file"

[fduncanh]

See @geeflaxx 's report in #197 (thanks for reporting)

Arch Linux (and potentially other Arch-based Linux systems) have recently upgraded to a new (2023-04-21) release of libplist that breaks uxplay (or other) binaries compiled against the previous libplist release.

The shared libplist-2.0 library is now called libplist-2.0.so.4 while previously it was libplist-2.0.so.3, and uxplay must be rebuilt to work with the renamed libplist library after the upgrade.

This issue is unique to "rolling release" Linux distributions such as Arch Linux that provide upgraded packages as they are released (as of 2023-05-26, Fedora and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are not affected)

• in case of doubt, "ldd /usr/bin/uxplay | grep libplist" (AUR builds) or "ldd /usr/local/bin/uxplay | grep libplist" (your own builds) will confirm which version of libplist your uxplay executable was compiled against.

  • "pacman -Ql libplist | grep libplist-2.0 .so" will show you which version of libplist is installed on your Arch-based system

  After upgrading libplist, Just rebuild uxplay from source or with AUR, and you will be OK

[fduncanh]

The AUR version of uxplay has now been bumped up to uxplay 1:1.64-2 to encourage a rebuild after the update of libplist