ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory SOLVED

greg_dickson · July 18, 2021, 11:32am

This is really just a heads up as I found a solution.
Ok went back to the drawing board and this time decided to install via deb on a newish system.
I got the above error
a quick google search returned this

github.com/microsoft/vscode-postgresql

ImportError: libffi.so.6

opened 03:15AM - 02 May 20 UTC

J-Ibarra

- PGSQL Extension Version: ```0.3.0``` - VSCode Version: ```1.44.2``` - OS Ve…rsion: ``` Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Linux 5.4.0-28-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 22 17:40:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ``` Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ext 2. Ctrl + Shift + P 3. PostgreSQL: New Query the ouput is ``` Initializing PostgreSQL tools service for the PostgreSQL extension. Note: PostgreSQL commands will be available after installing the service. Platform-------------: linux, x86_64, name=ubuntu, version=20.04 (Ubuntu16) Installing PostgreSQL tools service to /home/jibarra/.vscode/extensions/ms-ossdata.vscode-postgresql-0.3.0/pgsqltoolsservice/v1.4.0/Ubuntu16. Downloading https://github.com/Microsoft/pgtoolsservice/releases/download/v1.4.0/pgsqltoolsservice-linux-x64.tar.gz (21369 KB) ... ``` ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/__startup__.py", line 14, in run File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console.py", line 26, in run File "pgsqltoolsservice/pgtoolsservice_main.py", line 11, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/ptvsd/__init__.py", line 17, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/ptvsd/attach_server.py", line 35, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/ptvsd/visualstudio_py_debugger.py", line 24, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module> ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [Error - 9:52:03 p. m.] Connection to server got closed. Server will not be restarted. ``` I tried this `sudo dpkg -S libffi.so` ``` libffi7:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7.1.0 libffi7:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7 ``` `sudo ln /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6` reboot, this solve the problem but not its the best solution

The way that worked for me was

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libf/libffi/libffi6_3.2.1-8_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libffi6_3.2.1-8_amd64.deb

I also needed to add numpy even though the deb didn’t ask for it.