upgrading poppler to version 20.12.0 renders okular unusable
by sairum from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BA6Q)
Is it just me? Upgraded poppler to version 20.12 (4th December) and okular immediately stopped working.
From the command line
Quote:
Code:bash-5.0# ldd /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/okular/generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so
[...]
libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f72592f6000)
libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f7258da8000)
libpoppler.so.104 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7258bdb000)
[...]Symlinking libpoppler.so.104 to libpoppler.so.105 solves the problem


From the command line
Quote:
bash-5.0# okular example.pdf org.kde.okular.core: Invalid plugin factory for "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/okular/generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so":"Cannot load library /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/okular/generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so: (libpoppler.so.104: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" |
[...]
libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f72592f6000)
libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f7258da8000)
libpoppler.so.104 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7258bdb000)
[...]Symlinking libpoppler.so.104 to libpoppler.so.105 solves the problem