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I recently updated to 22.04 and I just realized that the GoPro player isn't working. I get this error:/usr/lib/GoProVRPlayer/GoProVRPlayer: error while loading shared libraries: libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried to reinstall it following the link below:

How can I view VR (virtual reality) 3D Video on a standard 2D screen in Ubuntu?

However, I keep getting this error:

error while loading shared libraries: libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tired this: sudo apt-get install libidn11:i386 following this libidn.so.11 error on starting an app. But didn't help.

Also tried this: https://linux-packages.com/ubuntu-jammy-jellyfish/package/libidn-dev but didn't help.

How do I fix it?

psimeson
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You can try installing it manually from previos version of ubuntu.
I installed it from this:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/i386/libidn11/download

It is a version from ubuntu 20.04. The lib itself only depends on libc so it should run just fine.

ldd /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libidn.so.11
    linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7fae000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf7d22000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7fb0000)

I had this problem with another application that also required this older libidn (among other older libs) and with this manually installed package from older ubuntu it just runs OK.

PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT ADD THE WHOLE REPOZITORY FROM OLDER UBUNTU TO YOUR NEW UBUNTU VERSION AS IT WILL MOST LIKELY CAUSE PROBLEMS. JUST INSTALL THE 1 SPECIFIC PACKAGE FROM THE LINK I PROVIDED

Another option is to build the library manually.

Jan
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