[ubuntu-uk] Cant open brasero

[scoundrel50a]

On 22/03/12 12:10, Colin Law wrote:
> On 22 March 2012 12:01, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> On 22 March 2012 11:01, John MM<scoundrel50a at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>> On 13 March 2012 10:01, scoundrel50a<scoundrel50a at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> I am running 11.10 and I'm trying to burn an image using brasero but
>>>>> when I
>>>>> click on the icon, nothing happens.....can somebody help?
>>>> What happens if run it from a terminal (just type brasero)
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hi, sorry I took so long to get back to you, have a few health problems that
>>> have been causing some problems.....
>>>
>>> I tried typing brasero into a terminal and got this message
>>>
>>> brasero: error while loading shared libraries: libunity.so.6: cannot open
>>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>> Something is missing apparently.  If you have not already done so then
>> check all is up to date
>> sudo apt-get update&&  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> and if still no joy then reinstall brasero might help
>> sudo apt-get --reinstall install brasero
>>
> Googling for brasero libunity suggests you are not alone in this.  See
> [1] and [2] and possibly others.
>
> Suggestions there are to do (after my previous suggestions I think)
> sudo ln /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6
> or/and
> sudo apt-get --reinstall libunity6
> but I cannot vouch for these.
>
> Is anyone more knowledgeable reading?
>
> Colin
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/marlin/+bug/915546
> [2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/102147/cannot-launch-nautilus-due-to-libunity-so-6-missing
>
Ah, that worked, I entered the first two commands then this one

sudo ln /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

It now works......Brasero opened.....have to see if I can burn an image if that works I'll let you know, thank you so much.....