[SOLVED] Midori fails to start

[Sammi79]

Hi, greetings for my first post.

I just asked this in the regular forums noob section and had the thread shut immediately with a message that I should post here instead, as I am using Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi B so here goes:

I cannot start Midori from LXDE, no messages no action. When I try it at the command line it gives the error:

midori: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.49: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

When I look in the /lib folder there is indeed no file by that name. There is a file libicui18n.so.50. I do not know if this is relevant but I post it here in case. A few days ago it was working, and that was before I even discovered the /lib folder but in my impetuosity and excitement I inadvertently damaged the OS and had to reinstall.

I am very new to linux (about 4 days) so I apologise if this question or the way it is put is irritating I am trying hard to learn. Can anyone nudge me in the right direction with this or should I just get another browser?

Regards,
Sam.

[edit] I have searched and googled and researched and regoogled all day to no avail.

[edit2] Tried copying and renaming the lib file, to find that 2 more lib files present midori with the same problem:
libicuuc.so.49 and libicudata.so.49 copied and renamed. Surprise surprise it didn't work so removed copies.

[edit3] created symbolic links as described in http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2432&start=0#p14850 but same error occurs. I'm guessing I actually need the .so.49 files themselves for that to work.

[xenoxaos]

This should now be corrected. Please rerun pacman -Syu again.

[navigium]

I experienced the same problem.

pacman -Suy didn't help in my case. I somehow had to replace libwebkit with webkitgtk2 by

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman webkitgtk2')

and then choose yes when it asks to replace libwebkit.

[teachop]

Same here.... pacman -Syu didn't correct it. Using the method given above, installing webkitgtk2, did get midori working again.

[Sammi79]

Thank you for your replies. It is working now after replacing libwebkit with webkitgtk2.

I had given up and was using Dillo instead, though I kinda want the ability to watch flash vids. Dillo is soooo fast though it's really nice to use. Ah well I shall give Midori another whirl. No harm in having both!

So thanks again I shall mark this as solved.

For my education, would anyone be so kind as to tell me exactly what was going on? Am I right in asssuming this was a package upgrade that midori needed a rebuild for?

best,
Sam.

[harroxelas]

I was gonna post this yesterday, though in my case was uzbl and dwb that were not starting, but I ended up deciding to wait one more day and try to fix it myself.

Anyway, thanks for fixing it, ALARM crew.