Bug 418485

Summary:	unable to find the Okular component: The shared library was not found ubuntu
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	LASSOUED Ghassen <lassoued.ghass>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	m.weghorn
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description LASSOUED Ghassen 2020-03-04 22:16:03 UTC

SUMMARY
unable to find the Okular component: The shared library was not found ubuntu 

Hello, 

Okular from KDE was working really fine, till someday a bug happened, so i uninstalled it and the reinstalled it . Fews days after, I get this message 
"unable to find the Okular component: The shared library was not found ubuntu" 

I am really new to ubuntu and i searched for solution on the web, but i did not understand because i am new to ubuntu. 

Please, is there a solution keeping my pdf files intact ? because i have important notes in them

I am using ubuntu 18.04

Thanks

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Michael Weghorn 2020-03-05 13:33:15 UTC

Does reinstalling Okular via this command on command line help?

    apt install --reinstall libokular5core8 okular

(In reply to LASSOUED Ghassen from comment #0)
> Please, is there a solution keeping my pdf files intact ? because i have
> important notes in them

Good news in any case is that the PDF files themselves should not be affected in any way, it's "just" the Okular installation that is somehow messed up on your system.

Comment 2 LASSOUED Ghassen 2020-03-16 14:04:16 UTC

(In reply to Michael Weghorn from comment #1)
> Does reinstalling Okular via this command on command line help?
> 
>     apt install --reinstall libokular5core8 okular
> 
> (In reply to LASSOUED Ghassen from comment #0)
> > Please, is there a solution keeping my pdf files intact ? because i have
> > important notes in them
> 
> Good news in any case is that the PDF files themselves should not be
> affected in any way, it's "just" the Okular installation that is somehow
> messed up on your system.

Thank you for your reply. 
Some days ago, a found this and it fixed the issue: 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1114346/suddenly-okular-will-not-open-any-more?fbclid=IwAR2titIzH0MEd77-HoFioSYEYSOBvIxt2n-TXmonX86h__z1bQXZ1KNvHw0

Comment 3 Michael Weghorn 2020-03-16 14:25:40 UTC

OK, let's close as WORKSFORME then.

Comment 4 LASSOUED Ghassen 2020-03-16 21:15:47 UTC

(In reply to Michael Weghorn from comment #3)
> OK, let's close as WORKSFORME then.
 Sorry, i have not meant that you should close or something. 
I am grateful for your answer and help. 
i just uploaded the link of the other answer so that other people having the same issue can resolve it

Comment 5 Michael Weghorn 2020-03-17 09:04:42 UTC

(In reply to LASSOUED Ghassen from comment #4)
> (In reply to Michael Weghorn from comment #3)
> > OK, let's close as WORKSFORME then.
>  Sorry, i have not meant that you should close or something. 

Sorry, I might have misunderstood then. If your initial problem is still there after reinstalling the Okular packages as mentioned in comment 1, feel free to reopen and provide additional information...