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I shouted my disgust a while ago about the Twitter app called TweetDeck, “an overengineered brainf*** that could have only been created by a flex developer“, I said.  Soon after this, I gave it another go (oddly enough), and after getting over the complicated mix of buttons and muddled interface I decided I liked it.  

Since then, I’ve been running it on all my machines, on linux, Windows and the Macbook.   Quite frankly, I love it, although I’m not sure whether the iPhone client would work very well, especially not with multi-lists and complicated layout, though I could be wrong (and have been before, obviously).

Recently however, I wiped my Ubuntu laptop recently, and after a fresh clean install and subsequent install of the right libraries, Adobe Flash, Air and finally TweetDeck, I was greeted with this:

Uh oh…

Unfortunately, most of the search results pointed back to Windows issues with an incorrect link back to the user’s home directory (thus, TweetDeck not being able to find the data), but obviously this wasn’t a huge help in the situation.

Running TweetDeck from a console gave the answer away pretty quickly: “libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”. After making sure I had libgnome-keyring and libgnome-keyring-dev installed, which it was (installed by default, the keyring is used everywhere), I remembered having an issue with installed libraries and Flash on a 64 bit install previously, a problem which is fixed by installing 32bit libraries for the apps that need them.  

A quick Google search, (which resulted any many more relevant results this time), a quick fix, and I was back up and running happily seconds later.

The Deck

Tags: twitter

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