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Document viewer (evince) couldn't open pdf when system upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04
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Library path incorrect
Nine years ago on this bug report it was discovered:
installed a version without using the packaging system and it’s taking
over the ubuntu build and breaking your installation” libpoppler-glib.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4
(0xb78b0000)”clean that and it should be working correctly
The solution was to remove:
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4
Nine years later and you have a similar problem. Checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH is pointing to a single dir rather than the full path list. There is an incorrect version of libpoppler-cpp.so and libpoppler-glib.so.8 there.
Moving libpopper* to another directory allowed evince to work with the proper dynamic linker searches in /lib and /usr/lib.