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tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1746 / 1 Year ago, thu, march 16, 2023, 10:26:24

Recently upgraded from 16.04 to 17.10 and when I tried to run tmux it throwing this error.

tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How Can I solve this?

apt-cache policy tmux results this

  Installed: 2.5-3build1

  Candidate: 2.5-3build1

  Version table:

 *** 2.5-3build1 500

        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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answered 1 Year ago ngthmated · Accepted Answer

I had this issue and came to find I had two tmux binaries installed.
My suggestion for simplicity:

apt remove tmux

which tmux

If you have a response the 2nd time, rm it then reinstall