Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module” .... but already installed

Question

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

but I already have the libcanberra-gtk-module and libcanberra-gtk3-module installed. (i.e. I tried this solution, but it is already installed.)

This happens for instance, when I run ipython --pylab

I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 - raring.

score 522 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 03:54

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install gtk and gtk3 module should solve it.

sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module

answered Jan 16 '17 at 03:54

croesus

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For me sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module worked fine – NZD Mar 03 '17 at 01:54
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This should be the accepted answer – Brij Raj Kishore May 26 '18 at 02:05
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This works for Android Studio – Gabor May 30 '18 at 18:56
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This worked for me on Ubuntu 18 – A.W. Jul 03 '18 at 15:40
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worked for me too, ubuntu 18.04.1. Installing pidgin from terminal was the only way to show office-communicator protocol (for Lync) and I stumbled on this same problem but solved with the above and now OCommunicator shows. Thanks! – Yannis Dran Nov 12 '18 at 17:27
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This worked, but what is canberra-gtk-module anyways? – Soichi Hayashi Dec 13 '18 at 15:08
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After an update of Spotify client, I had to reinstall these packages. Now it works like a charm! – xarlymg89 Mar 04 '19 at 14:49
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didn't worked for me. Using octave, and error is happening. – Vicrobot Oct 15 '19 at 11:58
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Didn't work for me – Porcupine Nov 19 '19 at 07:56
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This worked for me. The error happened whenever I opened gVim. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.3 (bionic). – Dan Saattrup Nielsen Dec 14 '19 at 15:51
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sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module worked for Android Studio on Debian 10 – nanquim Jan 17 '20 at 01:26
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for me it was libcanberra-gtk0 – Dave Ankin Apr 02 '21 at 05:49
sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev fixed all the issues for me. – Vinay Verma Feb 15 '22 at 12:50
worked for ubuntu 20.04 – washiur17 Mar 23 '22 at 17:35
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@SoichiHayashi according to https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libcanberra-gtk-module, "canberra-gtk-module translates GTK+ widgets signals to event sounds. A GtkModule which will automatically hook into all kinds of events inside a GTK+ program and generate sound events from them. " – Monarch Wadia Jun 04 '22 at 16:46
This does not answer the question – manarinian Jul 08 '22 at 07:12
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This solution works for me, but only after a reboot, which is a strange necessity in Ubuntu 20.04. – saeng Jul 13 '22 at 09:13
We get Error: Package 'libcanberra-gtk-module' has no installation candidate in 25.04 – FedKad May 19 '25 at 09:36

score 117 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '13 at 21:50

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This problem may occur on a 64-bit machine when one installs 32-bit software that requires canberra-gtk-module. acroread, for example, can cause this problem. In this case, the solution is to install the 32-bit version:

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module:i386

One should leave the 64-bit version as well as it is necessary for 64-bit programs which attempt to use it.

answered Sep 24 '13 at 21:50

R. W. Sinnet

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I have a 32-bit system so I don't think this applies. Any other ideas? It's the Copy.com client that throws the error. – endolith Oct 21 '14 at 01:22
It fixed my 32-bits Firefox on Ubuntu 64-bits. – Dielson Sales Dec 15 '14 at 17:27
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This did not help for me. I also tried sudo apt-get remove libcanberra-gtk-module before sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module:i386, still does not work. – Mads Skjern Jun 18 '15 at 11:23
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Doesn't work for me. – Daniel Nov 15 '15 at 11:05
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Did not solve this error with Polar Bookshelf on Ubuntu 18.04 – SteveSong Oct 20 '18 at 11:11
Doesn't work for me too – Sabrina Aug 03 '19 at 00:57
This does not answer the question – manarinian Jul 08 '22 at 07:12

score 40 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 10 '22 at 17:56

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WARNING: User Paparazio reported that this command removed a lot more software than he was expecting. See his question for details. – wjandrea Jun 8 2017 at 20:29

I had the same problem and solve it with the solution given in this launchpad issue.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libcanberra-gtk-module

edited Feb 10 '22 at 17:56

Volker Siegel

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answered Feb 10 '16 at 14:29

Quentin

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Didn't work for me. – Dan H Aug 09 '16 at 20:36
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WARNING: User Paparazio reported that this command removed a lot more software than he was expecting. See his question for details. – wjandrea Jun 08 '17 at 20:29
Didn't work for me – Jeff Davenport Oct 15 '18 at 17:55
Worked for me, ending in installation of libcanberra-gtk0. Seeing the warning from Paparazio reported by wjandrea, I first check with '-s' as an argument to apt-get : apt-get install -s --reinstall libcanberra-gtk-module then the line given above – Laurent G Apr 22 '19 at 17:47
I get qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (8 8 8 0) – chovy Apr 14 '20 at 01:27

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 24 '16 at 21:46

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Maybe too much but this solved my problem:

$ sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk*

answered Oct 24 '16 at 21:46

Mona Jalal

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terrible idea and didn't even get rid of that error when I tried it. – tatsu Mar 03 '18 at 18:36
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Please, use apt-get with wildcards with caution - or better: don't use wildcards. This often leads to unexpected results that are not easy to fix for people without in-depth experience of the package management system. – byteborg Mar 01 '19 at 12:03
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This answer solved my problem! I'm a little nervous now that I read the comments after the fact but so far so good... thanks @Mona – Robert Houghton Dec 30 '19 at 17:16
@tatsu You say this is a "terrible idea" but give no information as to why... if it solves the issue (as it has done for Robert Houghton then I don't see how it can be "terrible". – Noah Domingues Oct 08 '24 at 18:23
this was 6 years ago, I do not recall. must have been an incompatible apt package for ubuntu 18 – tatsu Oct 09 '24 at 19:39
Proceed with caution before installing all the packages with wildcard. Check each package and verify its authenticity before proceeding. – User15239563 Mar 02 '25 at 09:10

mathlete · Answer 5 · 2025-01-28T20:36:57.307

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I was specifically getting this error from various Matlab versions, and managed to find a good solution here.

Basically, after installing the library/module, you need to create a gtk-2.0 link to it:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so /usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk-module.so

edited Jan 28 '25 at 20:36

answered Jan 28 '25 at 20:19

mathlete

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