RSSOwl Fix for "Can't start browser"

Post date: Oct 31, 2012 3:02:17 AM

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu and my favourite RSS Reader stopped working:(I have a workaroundTwo issues to work-around

1. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the xulrunner installed in RSSOWL
   • cd to the RSSOwl Install dir then run
     • LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./xulrunner/ ./RSSOwl
2. It then complains about a problem with xulrunner requiring libhunspell
   • xulrunner-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libhunspell-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
   • Ubuntu 12.10 default package is libhunspell-1.3-0 with the corresponding library file
   • So I kludged it with a symbolic link
     • sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhunspell-1.3.so.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhunspell-1.2.so.0

**Now it works! when I run**

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./xulrunner/ ./RSSOwl