# GLMakie libgobject-2.0.so error
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [April 24, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850 "2023-04-24T09:27:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daniel_Lewis)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/1 "2023-04-24T09:27:17Z")
hi
I’m working on ubuntu 20.04 and try to use GLMakie but get the following error:
```julia
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "libgobject-2.0.so"
libgobject-2.0.so: undefined symbol: g_uri_ref
```
when runing:
```julia
using Libdl
filter!(lib -> occursin("glib", lib), dllist())
```
I get:
```julia
String[]
```
How can i fix this?
thanks
daniel
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/2 "2023-04-24T23:43:18Z")
Can you please show `Libdl.dllist()` after you try to load the package, in the same session where loading fails? My educated guess is that you’re loading some system libraries. Also, how did you install Julia?
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daniel_Lewis)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 6:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/3 "2023-04-27T06:18:34Z")
> [@giordano](#):
>
> Libdl.dllist()
hi this is the output :
```julia
linux-vdso.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/libjulia.so.1
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libgcc_s.so.1
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libopenlibm.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libjulia-internal.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunwind.so.8
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatomic.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libjulia-codegen.so.1
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libLLVM-13jl.so
/julia-1.8.3/lib/julia/sys.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libgmp.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libmpfr.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libopenblas64_.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libgfortran.so.5
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libquadmath.so.0
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libblastrampoline.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libcholmod.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libamd.so.2
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libcolamd.so.2
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libsuitesparseconfig.so.5
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libccolamd.so.2
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libcamd.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnghttp2.so.14
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libcurl.so
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libssh2.so.1
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libmbedtls.so.14
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libmbedx509.so.1
/julia-1.8.3/bin/../lib/julia/libmbedcrypto.so.7
/.julia/artifacts/9cfa1f93276d8e380806650071f8447e8e38301f/lib/libearcut.so
/.julia/artifacts/7661e5a9aa217ce3c468389d834a4fb43b0911e8/lib/libbz2.so
/.julia/artifacts/54c97eb1b0a6f74bac96297a815ddec2204a7db7/lib/libfreetype.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1
/.julia/artifacts/abf4b5086b4eb867021118c85b2cc11a15b764a9/lib/libopenspecfun.so
/.julia/artifacts/d11639e2a53726f2593e25ba98ed7b416f62bbc5/lib/libfribidi.so
/.julia/artifacts/e63503984ff7722ba80209eddd5621acca0d2d5e/lib/libcharset.so
/.julia/artifacts/e63503984ff7722ba80209eddd5621acca0d2d5e/lib/libiconv.so
/.julia/artifacts/d00220164876dea2cb19993200662745eed5e2db/lib/libffi.so
/.julia/artifacts/f792596249694cc12db3689d386d3a6c5d24e794/lib/libxml2.so
/.julia/artifacts/dc526f26fb179a3f68eb13fcbe5d2d2a5aa7eeac/lib/libgettextlib.so
/.julia/artifacts/5a508a62784097dab7c7ae5805f2c89d2cc97397/lib/libmount.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1
/.julia/artifacts/1cfe0ebb804cb8b0d7d1e8f98e5cda94b2b31b3d/lib/libgio-2.0.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7
/.julia/artifacts/1cfe0ebb804cb8b0d7d1e8f98e5cda94b2b31b3d/lib/libglib-2.0.so
/.julia/artifacts/1cfe0ebb804cb8b0d7d1e8f98e5cda94b2b31b3d/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so
```
because I’m on ubuntu I downloaded it from the web and add ls to `/usr/bin` as “julia”
thank
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/4 "2023-04-27T09:58:20Z")
> [@Daniel\_Lewis](#):
>
> because I’m on ubuntu I downloaded it from the web and add ls to `/usr/bin` as “julia”
It isn’t clear to me what you did exactly: where did you download it from?
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daniel_Lewis)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/5 "2023-04-30T10:45:39Z")
hi,
I downloaded it from the official julia web page, save at “/home/” and added a symbolic link at “/usr/bin” to be able to call `julia` anywhere.
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/6 "2023-04-30T22:53:17Z")
Is creating the symlink to `/usr/local/bin` (which is a more sensible idea for “custom” software you’re installing without your package manager) any better? Also, you may want to use [juliaup](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup) instead of manually managing the julia installation (and only one at a time) yourself.
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daniel_Lewis)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 5:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/7 "2023-05-01T05:39:07Z")
I reinstall julia using ‘juliaup’ and run `instantiate`, unfortunately I still get the same errors
```julia
Precompiling project...
✗ Cairo_jll
✗ HarfBuzz_jll
✗ libass_jll
✗ FFMPEG_jll
✗ FFMPEG
✗ Makie
✗ GLMakie
197 dependencies successfully precompiled in 84 seconds
7 dependencies errored. To see a full report either run `import Pkg; Pkg.precompile()` or load the packages
```
and the same lib error is popping up ☹
```julia
Failed to precompile GLMakie [e9467ef8-e4e7-5192-8a1a-b1aee30e663a] to /home/.julia/compiled/v1.8/GLMakie/jl_qnpWVH.
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "/home/.julia/artifacts/1cfe0ebb804cb8b0d7d1e8f98e5cda94b2b31b3d/lib/libgobject-2.0.so"
/home/.julia/artifacts/1cfe0ebb804cb8b0d7d1e8f98e5cda94b2b31b3d/lib/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined symbol: g_uri_ref
```
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/8 "2023-05-01T08:04:40Z")
Uhm, do you have the environment variable LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH set?
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Lewis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daniel_Lewis)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/9 "2023-05-09T04:55:35Z")
hi,
I don’t know…
What do I need to check and how to set it?
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/10 "2023-05-09T09:15:55Z")
Inside Julia:
```julia
ENV["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"]
```
---
### Author:  [@bojohnson02](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bojohnson02)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-libgobject-2-0-so-error/97850/11 "2023-07-27T00:55:37Z")
It looks like this issue is solved [here](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)