# Libprotobuf.so.16 error

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**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/libprotobuf-so-16-error/114896 "2018-10-22T13:31:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/libprotobuf-so-16-error/114896/1 "2018-10-22T13:31:12Z")

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Hello! I am currently trying to open the launcher an am currently getting an error on launch:  
./evelauncher: error while loading shared libraries: libprotobuf.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  
I have installed the LATEST version of libprotobuf from source, which provides libprotobuf.so.17, not .so.16 Any easy solution here?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/libprotobuf-so-16-error/114896/2 "2019-01-20T13:31:13Z")

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