[CentOS] CentOS 8 & HandBrakeCLI

Mon Jul 13 09:09:16 UTC 2020
Kay Diederichs <kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de>

On 7/13/20 4:04 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. wrote:
> Since I upgraded to CentOS8, I cannot get HandBrakeCLI to work:
> 
> # HandBrakeCLI
> HandBrakeCLI: error while loading shared libraries: libass.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Googling this, it appears the error message is related to ffmpeg, but I don't get any error message with it:
> 
> # ffmpeg
> ffmpeg version 4.2.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
>   built with gcc 8 (GCC)
>   configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --optflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld ' --extra-cflags=' ' --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-version3 --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gcrypt --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libaom --enable-libdav1d --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcdio --enable-libdrm --enable-libjack
> --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nvenc --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librsvg --enable-libsrt --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-version3 --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-libzvbi --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --enable-libmodplug --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-libmfx --enable-runtime-cpudetect
>   libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
>   libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
>   libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
>   libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
>   libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
>   libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
>   libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
>   libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
>   libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
> Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
> usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...
> 
> Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
> 
> ...it is correct that I don't have a .5:
> 
> 
> # ls /usr/lib64/libass*
> /usr/lib64/libass.so  /usr/lib64/libass.so.9 /usr/lib64/libass.so.9.0.2  /usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0 /usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0.8.1
> 
> Ideas?
> 
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So libass.so.9 is installed, but the program needs libass.so.5 - this leads to the error you see.

Consider running
ldd `which HandBrakeCLI` | grep -i found
which might show you which other libraries are missing.

If it's only libass.so.5, potentially a symlink 
ln -s libass.so.9  libass.so.5
in /usr/lib64 would do the trick, but the difference in version numbers appears large. Maybe it matters, maybe not.

I'd also try to update HandBrakeCLI ; a later version might make use of libass.so.9 .

HTH,
Kay