libgtk-1.2.so.0 missing

**aam-aadmi** · December 18th, 2009

Hi All,

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP dv2500 laptop; I have just now installed Stata 9. But the Stata GUI does not work because the libgtk-1.2.so.0 is missing.

When I type xstata at the command prompt I get

HTML Code:

xstata: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I saw that libgtk-1.2.so.0 is not available in the Synaptic Package Manager (because it is a very old and outdated library, I guess). How do I get it and install it?

Thanks in advance.

Aam-aadmi

**fooman** · December 18th, 2009

search in synaptic for the "libgtk2.0-dev" package and install it....or just open a terminal and type or copy/paste the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

hope that helps.

**aam-aadmi** · December 19th, 2009

I did install that but the problem still persists. Any further suggestions?

Aam-aadmi

**anewguy** · December 19th, 2009

I'm a little out of my element here, but I think it might be possible to set up a symbolic link linking libgtk-1.2.so.0 to the libgtk-2.0 "stuff". Someone else would need to help you on the syntax for that.

dave

**Kebrethian** · December 19th, 2009

I am having the same problem. I ran the aforementioned code and I had already tried all the suggestions on this thread: http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/sh...d.php?t=599032

What I end up with is this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package libgtk2.0-dev

Same thing happens minus the -dev

I am running the 32-bit Karmic

**mc4man** · December 19th, 2009

see here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ight=libgtk1.2

**Flos Headford** · September 24th, 2010

Thanks to the thread above, I've been able to install and run GSview (a great front-end for Ghostscript).
Bless you!
Phil

**ankurchaudhary8931** · February 10th, 2013

I am getting following error on adding the line to Synaptic package manage and running the update command for apt

apt-get update

Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe Translation-en
Fetched 1,724 kB in 53s (32.0 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I am using ubuntu 12.04

**wildmanne39** · February 10th, 2013

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