Program runs from launcher, but not terminal

Asked Jan 29 '24 at 02:27

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I just build and installed paraview. It shows up correctly in the application launcher, and launches just fine when run that way. But when I run paraview from terminal, I get an error: paraview: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libvtkRenderingMatplotlib-pv5.12.so.1: undefined symbol: PyTuple_Type

The .desktop file that is generated for paraview uses just paraview to launch, with no arguments fed in. How could it possibly work when run via the .desktop file, but not via the terminal? Based on this question, it appears that there's different environment variables. This solution doesn't work for me though, the program isn't a text editor, and the /tmp/env.launcher file doesn't exist. I'm on Pop_OS! 22.04

asked Jan 29 '24 at 02:27

Liam Clink

Does your terminal environment contain a LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable? – steeldriver Jan 29 '24 at 02:51
Yes, and it includes /usr/local/lib – Liam Clink Feb 02 '24 at 01:29
Right - so when you run it using the launcher, it's likely finding the correct "system" version of the library instead of your locally-installed one – steeldriver Feb 02 '24 at 01:39
But I built it against the locally built one, or at least I ran the build from my shell with that LD_LIBRARY_PATH that should've been used in the build – Liam Clink Feb 04 '24 at 04:20

Program runs from launcher, but not terminal

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