[digiKam-users] appimage not loading: symbol lookup error

[digikam at 911networks.com]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 19:13:19 +0200
Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because AppImage must work as well. It's have been the case until
> now, with new Linux distro release.
> 
> Typically i add the preload rule in internal startup bash script in
> the bundle :
> 
> https://github.com/KDE/digikam/blob/master/project/bundles/appimage/data/AppRun#L11
> 
> This must do the job, or i miss something ?

Please note that I'm not a bash programmer but:

if [ -f "/usr/lib/libfreetype.so" ]; then
    LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libfreetype.so"
elif [ -f "/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so" ]; then
    LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so"
fi

in my case (Manjaro): /usr/lib/libfreetype.so is not a file but a
link:

$ ls -alF /usr/lib/libfreetype.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May  2 04:15 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.16.1*

So shouldn't it be a "-e" instead of a "-f":

if [ -e "/usr/lib/libfreetype.so" ]; then
    LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libfreetype.so"
elif [ -e "/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so" ]; then
    LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so"
fi

Warning: I'm not a bash programmer

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