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R A Khan
Asked: 2013-11-10 07:06:30 +0800 CST

When executing acroreader it fails with "error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file"

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I have downloaded adobe reader 9.5.5 and installed it using gdebi.Now if I click on any pdf it is not starting.I tried "acroread" in terminal and it is showing me this error

/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Then I have installed libxml2.But still it is showing the same above error. My system OS is ubuntu 13.10.

Is there any solution to my problem for using Adobe reader or any other alternative pdf reader other than foxit and default(evince) or okular by using which I can highlight any text in my pdf?

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4 Answers

  1. I resolved this issue on my 64 bits Ubuntu (13.10) using the following terminal command:

    sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 libstdc++6:i386
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  2. Maybe this is an issue with symbolic link to the correct version.

    Identify the library dependency of your program and locate the library like this (I don't have acroread, but should be same):

    $ which evince
/usr/bin/evince
$ ldd /usr/bin/evince | grep libxml
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7534000)
$ ls -l /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Jul 16 20:48 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so -> libxml2.so.2.7.8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Jul 16 20:48 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.7.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1360484 Jul 16 20:48 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.7.8

    If you do not have symlink named libxml2.so.2 pointing somewhere, create one:

    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.7.8 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2

    Change evince to acroread in your case. Hope this helps.

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  3. This also resolved it for me in Debian Buster using the following terminal command:

    sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 libstdc++6:i386
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  4. This link https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+question/209800, post #23 and #24 can also help to solve this issue. I successfully applied both on Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.15.0-45-generic

    $ sudo updatedb; locate libBIB
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so.1.2
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIBUtils.so
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIBUtils.so.1.1

$ ldd /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread | grep not
libBIB.so => not found
libBIBUtils.so => not found
libACE.so => not found
libAGM.so => not found
libCoolType.so => not found
libAXE8SharedExpat.so => not found
libJP2K.so => not found
libAdobeXMP.so => not found
libicuuc.so.36 => not found
libResAccess.so => not found


$ sudo updatedb; locate libBIBUtils.so
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIBUtils.so
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIBUtils.so.1.1

$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so .
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so.1.2 .
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIBUtils.so .
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIBUtils.so.1.1 .
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