libpulse-simple issue on Ubuntu 18.04

[wjm8823]

Hello, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and have dcpomatic installed properly as far as i can tell.

apt list --installed | grep dcpomatic
dcpomatic/now 2.12.20-1 amd64 [installed,local]

When i attempt to run it via 'dcpomatic2' I get the following error:
dcpomatic2: error while loading shared libraries: libpulse-simple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

'ldconfig -p | grep libpulse-simple' shows that I don't have the library but I also don't see that it's available for ubuntu.
Any help appreciated. thanks...Bill

[carl]

Can you try

sudo apt install libpulse0

[wjm8823]

Thanks for the quick reply, that seemed to work. I probably should have asked first, can this be run on a remote server via cli ?
I'm getting the error 'Unable to initialize GTZ+, is display set properly' assuming I have to figure out how to export the display?
Sorry for all the questions.

[carl]

If you want to run the GUI from a client you could do

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ssh -X myserver dcpomatic2

assuming your sshd is set up appropriately. Is that what you're after?

[wjm8823]

I was able to get the DCP window to pop up but none of the menu options reacted to a mouse click. I'll mess around with it a bit. I had to follow the instructions at this site to get X11 forwarding it to work via PUTTY:
X11 forwarding - https://aruljohn.com/info/x11forwarding/
Thanks for all your help!

[carl]

OK, I've never tried X forwarding from Windows.

You may be better off running a VNC server on your Ubuntu machine and connecting to that from Windows...

[carl]

Alternatively, you can run DCP-o-matic on Windows, set up the projects, then copy them over to your Linux machine and use the CLI to do the transcode.