Bug#1110001: kde-spectacle: error while loading shared libraries: liblapack.so.3

[Jan Wedekind <jan@wedesoft.de>]

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Jan Wedekind
https://www.wedesoft.de/

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> * Jan Wedekind <jan@wedesoft.de> [2025-07-27 23:03]:
> > Taking a screenshot using hotkey does not work.
> > When taking a screenshot from the command line, one gets the following
> > error message:
> >
> >    spectacle: error while loading shared libraries: liblapack.so.3: cannot 
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > Creating a softlink for liblapack.so.3 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> > fixes this issue.
> > The next error encountered then is:
> >
> >    spectacle: error while loading shared libraries: libblas.so.3: cannot 
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > Creating a softlink for libblas.so.3 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu fixes
> > this issue. Taking screenshots with the KDE hotkey then works.
>
> Those two should point to  /etc/alternatives/ by default. Did you maybe 
> manually change the alternative in the past?
> Can you send the output of:
>
> update-alternatives --display liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu
> update-alternatives --display libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jochen

Hi, sorry if it is somehow my fault.
Note that I updated from Debian 12 and it is not a fresh install.
Here is the output of update-alternatives:


update-alternatives: Warnung: Alternative 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/liblapack.so.3 (Teil der Link-Gruppe 
liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu) existiert nicht; sie wird aus der Liste 
der Alternativen entfernt liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu - automatischer 
Modus
  beste Version des Links ist 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3
  Link verweist zur Zeit auf 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/liblapack.so.3
  Link liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu ist 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblapack.so.3 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3 - Priorität 10


update-alternatives: Warnung: Alternative 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/libblas.so.3 (Teil der Link-Gruppe 
libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu) existiert nicht; sie wird aus der Liste der 
Alternativen entfernt libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu - automatischer Modus
  beste Version des Links ist /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3
  Link verweist zur Zeit auf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/libblas.so.3
  Link libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu ist 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblas.so.3 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3 - Priorität 10



Kind regards
Jan