# Failed to precompile Plots due to InitError in libgobject-2.0.so: undefined symbol g\_pattern\_spec\_copy

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, plots, glib\_jll\
**Created:** [October 18, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failed-to-precompile-plots-due-to-initerror-in-libgobject-2-0-so-undefined-symbol-g-pattern-spec-copy/88900 "2022-10-18T09:46:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failed-to-precompile-plots-due-to-initerror-in-libgobject-2-0-so-undefined-symbol-g-pattern-spec-copy/88900/8 "2022-11-05T17:25:06Z")

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For the problem with `libgobject-2.0.so` my educated guess is that you have in your `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` an old copy of glib which is being picked up by the dynamic loader. To avoid this you can start julia with

```julia
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" julia

```

For the problem with the missing certificate file you’re clearly using an incomplete installation of julia.

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