[PLUG] Vobsub2srt

[Ben Koenig]

------- Original Message -------
On Monday, September 12th, 2022 at 11:30 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:


> On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:54:06 -0400
> Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com dijo:
> 
> > Try creating link with the name to your current tesseract lib file in
> > the lib directory.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. However, the error message doesn't say where
> it is looking for the lib file:
> 
> vobsub2srt: error while loading shared libraries:
> libtesseract.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> 
> A seach on libtesseract* in Catfish gave me:
> 
> /snap/vobsub2srt/34/usr/lib/libtesseract.so.3
> /snap/vobsub2srt/34/usr/lib/libtesseract.so.3.0.4
> /snap/vobsub2srt/34/usr/share/doc/libtesseract3
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.a
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so.4
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so.4.0.1
> /usr/share/doc/libtesseract-dev
> /usr/share/doc/libtesseract4
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtesseract-dev:amd64.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtesseract-dev:amd64.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtesseract4:amd64.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtesseract4:amd64.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtesseract4:amd64.shlibs
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtesseract4:amd64.triggers
> 
> I begin to see what happened - vobsub2srt was installed with snap,
> which apparently put libtesseract.so.3 in a /snap folder (why??), and
> tesseract doesn't look in there. I have little knowledge of how to
> create links, but I do know how to copy and paste so, guessing that the
> file should be in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, I copied the file into
> there, and that solved the problem. Except that now I have more things
> that tesseract can't find. Stay tuned. :)

Try launching vobsub2srt from the terminal like this:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/snap/vobsub2srt/34/usr/lib/ vobsub2srt

Post the terminal output, including the command. 
-Ben