filezilla: error loading shared libraries: libidn.so.11

[crantok]

I just installed filezilla by:

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sudo apt-get install filezilla

I tried to run filezilla and got this error:

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filezilla: error while loading shared libraries: libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thinking that a dependency had not been declared, I searched for a relevant package...

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$ apt-cache search libidn
libidn11 - GNU Libidn library, implementation of IETF IDN specifications
...

...and tried to install that but already had it:

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$ sudo apt-get install libidn11
...
libidn11 is already the newest version.

I checked what files the required package had installed...

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$ dpkg -S libidn11
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/README
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/copyright
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/changelog.Debian.gz
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/TODO
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/AUTHORS.gz
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/NEWS.gz
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11
libidn11: /usr/share/doc/libidn11/THANKS

...and saw that no object file was mentioned.

Could I have an incompletely installed package? I've never encountered this kind of situation before.

[crantok]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm running the MATE edition of Maya (Linux Mint 13).

[Monsta]

Yes, something's wrong with that package in your system. The correct filelist is here.
Try reinstalling it:

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall libidn11

[crantok]

Thanks for that tip Monsta. Now I know I can reinstall packages. Yay!

Unfortunately, filezilla still won't run (same error) and the object file is still missing from the file list for the libidn11 package.

[Monsta]

My mistake. I didn't realize that the correct syntax for viewing the contents of the package is dpkg -L, not dpkg -S. Check it. Maybe there was no need to reinstall...

[crantok]

Ah, I didn't realise that either.

As you may have suspected, that object file is already there, it just isn't being found by filezilla.

[crantok]

D'oh!

My laptop used to have an old Ubuntu on it. Back then I installed filezilla from the web for some reason. The symbolic link

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~/bin/filezilla

was being found before the package-manager installed filezilla, which I realised just now when I ran

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which filezilla

I'm going to slink away and be embarrassed now.