The solution of lacking libudev.so.0

WARNING: This solution is dangerous and may destabilize your system. Use at own risk.

Now Ubuntu 13.04 has remove the package libudev0, but chromium is depending the lib. So the node-webkit can't run on Ubuntu 13.04. The same problem is also appears on Fedora 18. There are some solutions:

1. create the linker to libudev.so.1 by hand.

install the package libudev1, and there is libudev.so.1 at /lib/x86_64-linux-gun/libudev.so.1. On Ubuntu for example, Run:

$ apt-get install libudev1
$ cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
$ ln -s libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0

2. through the .deb .rpm.

When install your app through the package. We can add some scripts for solving it. At the post install, create the linker to libudev.so.1.

Select the deb of Ubuntu for example. In the DEBIAN/postinst add these code.

get_lib_dir() {
  if [ "$DEFAULT_ARCH" = "i386" ]; then
    LIBDIR=lib/i386-linux-gnu
  elif [ "$DEFAULT_ARCH" = "amd64" ]; then
    LIBDIR=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
  else
    echo Unknown CPU Architecture: "$DEFAULT_ARCH"
    exit 1
  fi
}

LIBUDEV_0=libudev.so.0
LIBUDEV_1=libudev.so.1

add_udev_symlinks() {
  get_lib_dir
  if [ -f "/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_0" -o -f "/usr/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_0" -o -f "/lib/$LIBUDEV_0" ]; then
    return 0
  fi

  if [ -f "/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_1" ]; then
    ln -snf "/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_1" "/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_0"
  elif [ -f "/usr/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_1" ];
  then
    ln -snf "/usr/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_1" "/$LIBDIR/$LIBUDEV_0"
  else
    echo "$LIBUDEV_1" not found in "$LIBDIR" or "/usr/$LIBDIR".
    exit 1
  fi
}