[lug] The "cw" program doesn't work well with pulseaudio on Mint 19.3

Jed S. Baer blug at jbaer.cotse.net
Sun Aug 16 09:38:19 MDT 2020


On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 19:05:39 -0600
Jed S. Baer wrote:

> After upgrading to 19.3, it doesn't work so well. I've no doubt that
> something changed in pulseaudio, and so I'm invoking the Poettering
> effect.

Thanks to a user on the Mint forum, I have the fix. It appears to be
packaging problem, with a missing symlink, as documented:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unixcw/+bug/1854630

Fixed with ln -s libpulse-simple.so.0.1.1 libpulse-simple.so
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