[Solved] lib error starting application - symbol not found

[fmolina2b]

Hi,
I have installed Mathematica 11.1 on Mageia some time ago. It used to work. After a while not using it, trying to launch throws the following:

/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/11.1/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux-x86-64/Mathematica: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

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[fernando@Octopus ~]$ uname -a
Linux Octopus 5.3.7-desktop-4.mga7 #1 SMP Thu Oct 24 20:11:12 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


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[fernando@Octopus ~]$ rpm -qa | grep libfontconfig
libfontconfig1-2.12.1-2.mga6


Any other info?

Please help
Regards

[doktor5000]

Hi there, seems this is a known upstream issue, check e.g. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q ... -fedora-29
From what I understand, you would need to move away/rename at least freetype.so library from below /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/11.1/SystemFiles

[fmolina2b]

Bingo!
I moved away freetype.so, freetype.so.6 and libz.so.1 and now Mathematica works ok.
Thank you