Non working Chrome in 13.04 [SOLVED]

[Phil Dobbin]

On 02/01/14 17:06, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 02/01/14 15:45, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> On 2 January 2014 15:22, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 & now Google Chrome no longer works.
>>> Firefox is fine (as far as it goes) but Chrome just swells for a bit
>>> & then
>>> doesn't launch at all.
>>
>> Firstly, try running it from a terminal & watching for error messages.
>>
>> Also, try removing it, purging its settings, then reinstalling a
>> freshly-downloaded copy.
>
> Yeah, that's the best option methinks.
>
> It's not so life threatening: I only upgraded to 13.04 today in order to
> upgrade to 13.10 tomorrow because 13.04 goes EOL this month & I didn't
> want to be stranded at 12.10 on this machine.
>
>
> But I'd still like to know as to why this is happening.

It appears that the upgrade removed 'libudev.so' from /usr/lib which 
Chrome requires to run.

The solution is to symlink thusly:

`$ sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0'

Your version & architecture of 'libudev' may vary.

Cheers,

   Phil...

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