Recent update broke chromium (libFLAC.so.8)

[luphoria]

Describe the bug Presumably after a major instantOS update, chromium stopped working. It spit the error:

/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

My hotfix to the issue was a symlink: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libFLAC.so /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8

To Reproduce Not totally clear. However, from my best understanding, it has to do with a recent system update to instantwm-instantOS beta6-96-g3ba7b

Expected behavior libFLAC.so.8 should not disappear

Device (only relevant in some cases):

• instantwm-instantOS beta6-96-g3ba7b

[paperbenni]

This likely doesn't have anything to do with instantos The error you're getting is a library error. Basically chromium needs the file libFLAC.so.8 which belongs to another package. If the package is on an older version, then the file might be called libFLAC.so.7, chromium looks for 8 which doesn't exist yet and throws an error. Similarly if the package version is newer than chromium expects, e.g. chromium wants 7, then it also throws an error. Neither libFLAC or the chromium package are maintained by me, and my best guess is that some script to get a proprietary program working replaced the library

[luphoria]

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