jungledisk fails with libnotify error

Has anyone had success getting the jungledisk application to work under Ubuntu?

I installed it from the .deb file provided by jungledisk. The install goes fine, but I can't get the "jungle disk desktop" app to launch.

It appears in the dash search bar, but doesn't launch or do anything upon selecting it.

When I try the command line, I get the following...

$ jungledisk -V -f
Verbose mode enabled
Shutting down...
$

I get something more interesting with the following command ... something about libnotify.so

$ junglediskdesktop -V -f
junglediskdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Does anyone have suggestions for what to try?

Solution 1:

The helpticket folks at jungledisk/rackspace resolved this problem. It appears that jungledisk was expecing libnotify.so.1 and ubuntu had libnotify.so.4.

Creating a symlink pointing to libnotify.so.4 resolves the problem...

The new Ubuntu is missing libnotify.so.1 needed by jungle disk. This is resolved by creating a symlink to libnotify.so.4 to libnotify.so.1. Please [enter the commands] below and restart the machine:

cd /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ ; sudo ln -s ./libnotify.so.4 libnotify.so.1

Regards, JungleJason

Solution 2:

For a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, the other answer won't work, because the relevant library paths are different. However, the solution from the linuxmint forums does work:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnotify.so.4 /usr/lib/libnotify.so.1