Debian 12 – Fix libpangox missing dependency error for Anydesk 6.0.1

I downgraded Anydesk in my Debian 12 installation from the latest 7.x version to 6.0.1, and I got a dependency error on the libpangox library and Anydesk 6.0.1 did not start properly.

/usr/bin/anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The quick fix (if there are no side-effects I might notice in the future) is a simple symbolic link:

root@x220:~# cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
root@x220:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu# ln -s libpangoxft-1.0.so libpangox-1.0.so.0
root@x220:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu#

The libpangoxft-1.0.so file is provided by the libpango1.0-dev package, which was already installed in my system.

This fixed the issue and Anydesk started normally again, retaining my history of outgoing connections, as I did not mess with the ~/.anydesk directory.

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