Bug 2254279 - kate fails to launch due to missing libwayland-client.so.0
Summary: kate fails to launch due to missing libwayland-client.so.0
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: kate
Version: epel9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-12-13 03:39 UTC by Jimmy Cho
Modified: 2026-06-17 15:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2026-06-17 15:20:43 UTC
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Description Jimmy Cho 2023-12-13 03:39:32 UTC
Description of problem:

yum install kate

list of packages with dependencies are installed.

However running kate will fail with this message

kate: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-client.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


yum install libwayland-client  

will resolve the issue and kate will launch correctly




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How reproducible:

yum install kate
running kate

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Additional info:

please include 
libwayland-client  as a dependency so yum install kate will include it in the list of packages to install

Comment 1 Than Ngo 2026-06-17 15:20:43 UTC
i cannot reproduce this issue in latest fedora 43/44. As qt6-qtbase-gui already has runtime requirement on libwayland-client so It's not needed to add this requirement in kate.


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