Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I installed "tidy" to process some HTML files. I discovered it was unable, did a little Googling, and found the "modern" version of tidy at http://www.html-tidy.org/. I downloaded tidy-5.4.0-64bit.deb and used sudo gdebi tidy-5.4.0-64bit.deb to install it. All worked well, no problems. Except that every morning, the first time I run tidy, I get:
tidy: error while loading shared libraries: libtidy-0.99.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The only fix I know is sudo apt-get remove tidy and run the gdebi install again. Which works fine until the next morning. I imagine unattended upgrades are doing this to me. At first, I thought my mistake might have been installing the "old" tidy first -- maybe the gdebi command didn't quite fix everything up. But now I've reproduced the same problem on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 that has never had the "old" tidy installed, so I can't figure out why this doesn't bite lots of people.
I'm no package manager expert, so please let me know if there are commands that produce output with likely clues that I should have included here.
tidypackage from the default software repositories? Is it missing a feature that you need? – David Foerster May 13 '17 at 18:56