google-chrome error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file - Fixed Fedora

manager Sun, 11/16/2014 - 19:32

/google-chrome-stable: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I get the above error when I try to start  google on my Fedora 19 fc19 system after the latest yum update.

I will list all the steps I tried before I found the one that actually works.

  1. Uninstall Chrome-stable and re-install google-chrome-stable
    • result: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open
  2. Run from the directory /usr/bin
    • result: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open
  3. Create a symbolic link for the old libudev.so.0 to the new libudev.so.1 "sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev.so.1 /usr/lib64/libudev.so.0"
    • result: ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/lib/libudev.so.0’: File exist
    • Interesting I had a link in the /usr/lib for libudev.so.0 but not in /usr/lib64
       

Fix - This is what worked

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev.so.1 /usr/lib64/libudev.so.0