ERROR: skm failing, potential fix suggested

[Franknsten]

When following instructions as per installation guide, running

skm

after installation returns the following message:

skm: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Machine has been restarted multiple times. Issue was also occurring on 17.04 and 17.10, and the additional step 4 was run, and the update to 18.10 did not fix it.

SUGGESTION

If the following line of code is run (on 18.04 at least) then skm succeeds

sudo add-apt-repository universe && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libgconf-2-4

If this is a universal fix, I would suggest adding it to the installation instructions

[macite]

Is updating the repository essential? Sorry I haven't had time to check this myself.

[Franknsten]

I'm not sure, but whenever I've had to add a new repository the next command has been update, I'm guessing to make sure it recognizes the newly added source?

I pulled that command from another project having libgconf issues

[hugglesfox]

The apt-get update is required after adding the repo to refresh apt's package cache. I am unsure as to what has changed but in Ubuntu 20.04 this is not an issue.

[KL0010]

Nope. I tried an update. Still the same make error.
I enDed up installing splashkit following this URL:
https://splashkit.io/articles/installation/ubuntu/