How to install requested libs: GLIB, libavcodec and libavformat?

Question

I've got an application from InteractiveBrokers, which sometimes gives me this:

So I searched for those libs in synaptic, but in the screenshots below you can see that they all seem to be installed.

Does anybody know how I can solve this?

@PRATAP - 18.04. I also considered that this is simply an error by the creator of the software. Is that true? — kramer65, Nov 16 '18 at 10:56
When are you getting that error msg. Which app are you using? — PRATAP, Nov 16 '18 at 11:39
@PRATAP - I'm using the Trader Workstation of InteractiveBrokers.com, a system to trade on various exchanges. I get the message when a trade has been done, so I suppose it tries to play a sound. This is not really a dealbreaker, but I would love to solve it. — kramer65, Nov 17 '18 at 20:38
Have you tried those codes to install and see? your installed codecs are higher than the required. — PRATAP, Nov 17 '18 at 22:58
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/libavcodec53/6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2 — PRATAP, Nov 17 '18 at 23:03
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/libavformat53/6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2 — PRATAP, Nov 17 '18 at 23:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 19 '19 at 21:11

An old thread but maybe interesting for others: The latest version here needs libavcodec56 (strace was my friend ;) ).

One can simple build that version by using git (or an old release tarball). Here is what i've done:

git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git

# latest minor for of 56:
git checkout b94ec30428b9696f99b08055735689623fe63954

# (maybe also set "--prefix=/usr" here, or start TWS later with e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib")
./configure --enable-shared --disable-static
make -j
make install

Now start TWS (maybe set LD-path) and sound should play.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 01 '20 at 04:24

This is how I solved this:

Install docker:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install docker-ce

Run ubuntu:12.04 inside the container:

docker run -d --rm --name oldubu ubuntu:12.04 sleep 1000000000

Go into the container:
```
docker exec -it oldubu /bin/bash
```

Install some packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install make wget gcc pkg-config

Get old ffmpeg sources:

wget  https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/archive/n2.5.3.tar.gz

Unpack it:
```
tar -zxvf n2.5.3.tar.gz
```
Go into:
```
cd FFmpeg-n2.5.3
```

Prepare sources:

./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-shared

Build:
```
make -j 
```
Install:
```
make install
```
Create an archive from installed files:
```
tar -zcvf libavcodec.tgz -C /opt/ .
```
Get the archive from the container:
```
docker cp oldubu:libavcodec.tgz ./
```
Create some folder:
```
mkdir /opt/customsoft/ffmpeg/
```

Unpack our archive:

cd /opt/customsoft/ffmpeg/ && tar -zxvf ~/libavcodec.tgz # Now archive in my home directory

Open properties window of your TWS shortcut(Desktop icon) and insert LD_LIBRARY_PATH definition before actual command. For example in my case:
```
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/opt/customsoft/ffmpeg/lib "/home/bobzier/Jts/tws" -J-DjtsConfigDir="/home/bobzier/Jts" %U 
```

How to install requested libs: GLIB, libavcodec and libavformat?

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