SmartGit on KDE systems

SmartGit might fail to start on KDE systems

I’ve tested SuSE Tumbleweed with a KDE desktop. SmartGit did not start and showed a message about not being able to load libswt-pi4-4966r1.so (note the pi4) when launched from a terminal. That surprised me because the file libswt-pi3-gtk-4966r1.so (note the pi3) was properly expanded to ~/.config/smartgit/24.1/swt.tmp.

So it looks like the libswt-pi3-gtk-4966r1.so could not be loaded and gave a misleading error message. To investigate the missing dependency, I used ldd:

$ cd ~/.config/smartgit/24.1/swt.tmp
$ ldd libswt-pi3-gtk-4966r1.so | grep found
       libgthread-2.0.so.0 => not found

After installing the missing libgthread bundle

$ sudo zypper install libgthread-2_0-0

SmartGit started fine.