The solution of lacking libudev.so.0

OK the following is the "leet" solution ;)

• Download ghex: sudo apt-get install ghex
• Open up nw executable: ghex nw
• Find and replace string udev.so.0 with udev.so.1: Ctrl-F + udev + CR + (replace 0 with 1)

Tip - type 'udev.so.0' into the right hand side of the search box. Press Enter to find this text. Now click on the text highlighted in red and change 'udev.so.0' to 'read udev.so.1'

=== End quickfix ===

The following solution is provided in the same way as Google Chrome is used in their product:

Due to the removal of libudev0 and its associated library libudev.so.0, node-webkit isn't able to run on newer distributions such as:

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Fedora 18, 19
• Arch
• Gentoo
• Derivatives of the above

...and possibly others. Until node-webkit is updated to depend on the currently shipped version libudev.so.1, the following solutions should provide a stopgap measure for packaging your applications.

1. Create local symlink to libudev.so.1

Same as above install libudev1 if needed. Now create a local symlink to libudev.so.1. On Ubuntu for example, run from the directory where nw files are extracted:

# ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 ./libudev.so.0

Then create a shell script to run nw:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/omi/nw:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./nw $*

As you are only modifying local contents of node-webkit directory, this option should not have an impact on the overall stability of your system.

2. Use a wrapper shell script for your application. In this way, rename the binary executable file as myapp-bin, and then create a shell script named myapp as the following. Users run the myapp file.

#!/bin/bash
export MYAPP_WRAPPER="`readlink -f "$0"`"

HERE="`dirname "$MYAPP_WRAPPER"`"

# Always use our versions of ffmpeg libs.
# This also makes RPMs find the compatibly-named library symlinks.
if [[ -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ]]; then
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE:$HERE/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
else
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE:$HERE/lib"
fi
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/myapp-bin"  "$@"

Creating a symlink for your package in the postinstall script

In the postinstall script of your DEB or RPM package, run the following script to create a local symlink. Use this together with the previous wrapper script.

#!/bin/bash
paths=(
  "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1" # Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint
  "/usr/lib64/libudev.so.1" # SUSE, Fedora
  "/usr/lib/libudev.so.1" # Arch, Fedora 32bit
  "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1" # Ubuntu 32bit
)
for i in "${paths[@]}"
do
  if [ -f $i ]
  then
    ln -sf "$i" /opt/myapp/libudev.so.0
    break
  fi
done