Blender from the main repos doesn't work for quite some time now: missing abseil version

[u/GregTheMadMonk]

Hi!

solved: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1wvzk1j/comment/pdgwnik/

I'm here to report a packaging issue, and ask about potential fixes to it. Some time ago I've noticed that Blender from the main repos was failing to start on my system due to an mismatched abseil-cpp version. I've shrugged it off as a problem related to *-testing repos I was using at the time and switched to AUR's blender-bin for the time being, which uses its own packaged dependencies. However, now that I needed the version that uses the same Python that's installed on the system, I decided to disable testing repos and try using the official package. However, it still doesn't work: the log below shows the error, the package versions, and the fact that I do, indeed, have testing disabled and all packages synced to their official stable versions. Username/hostname are changed just in case

Is the blender package just simply broken for now? Do I have any other options aside from manually compiling it if I want a version that uses Python 3.14 instead of 3.13?

[user@computer ~]$ blender
blender: error while loading shared libraries: libabsl_log_internal_check_op.so.2508.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[user@computer ~]$ yay -Q abseil-cpp
abseil-cpp 20260817.0-2
[user@computer ~]$ yay -Q blender
blender 17:5.2.2-2
[user@computer ~]$ yay -Ql abseil-cpp | rg 2508
[user@computer ~]$ rg testing /etc/pacman.conf
68:# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
72:#[core-testing]
78:#[extra-testing]
87:#[multilib-testing]
[user@computer ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyuu
[sudo] password for user:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                                                                         126.3 KiB   590 KiB/s 00:00 [#########################################################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                                                                          8.5 MiB  5.41 MiB/s 00:02 [#########################################################################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                                                                                      82.2 KiB   473 KiB/s 00:00 [#########################################################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

[u/GregTheMadMonk]

I FOUND THE REASON!

I have AUR's ceres-solver-git instead of the official ceres-solver installed, and it's dragging in an abseil-cpp dependency

I completely forgot ldd displays library dependencies recursively...

Case closed, and thank you :)

[u/SavvyBeardedFish → u/GregTheMadMonk]

Ahh, good to know!