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Qtox not working anymore after upgrade to Fedora 36 #6655

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meyou69 opened this issue Aug 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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Qtox not working anymore after upgrade to Fedora 36 #6655

meyou69 opened this issue Aug 27, 2022 · 2 comments

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@meyou69
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meyou69 commented Aug 27, 2022

Brief Description

OS: Fedora 36
qTox version: qtox-1.17.6-2.fc36.x86_64
Commit hash:
toxcore:
Qt:

Reproducible: Always

Steps to reproduce
  1. Install qtox from RPM Fusion via DNF
  2. Run "qtox" from the bash terminal
Observed Behavior

When I try to open qtox from the terminal, I get the following error message:
qtox: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Expected Behavior

I expect for qtox to open when I type the command

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There are no logs generated, as qtox doesn't even start properly

@peetervois
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peetervois commented Sep 30, 2022

Confirm it. Fedora does now have libvpx.so.7 and there seems no package that would provide older libvpx.

I have built the libvpx.so.6.4.0 copied it into system libs folder and made the link from libvpx.so.6 manually. Now the qtox starts. But it does crash on start of voice and video calls.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/35/x86_64/l/libvpx-1.10.0-2.fc35.i686.html

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meyou69 commented Dec 1, 2022

Well? Is anyone working on this issue yet?

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