can not import pycurl: librtmp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

As software-properties can not import pycurl, seems like pycurl is missing a dependency on librtmp, so I am reassigning this bug to the pycurl package.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This happens to me too.

I've upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04.

On running the add-apt-repository or the rhythbox commands in the shell, I get [1]

There's also a proposed solution to it in http://metacodigo.com.ar/?p=428

[1]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 8, in <module>
    from softwareproperties.SoftwareProperties import SoftwareProperties
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 53, in <module>
    from ppa import AddPPASigningKeyThread, expand_ppa_line
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 27, in <module>
    import pycurl
ImportError: librtmp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A temporary fix for me was to locate librtmp.so.0 on my system and symlink it into /usr/lib/

E.g.

$ locate librtmp.so.0
/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/librtmp.so.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/librtmp.so.0 /usr/lib/librtmp.so.0

Another short term fix (in case there are any other library packages that also install to that directory):
sudo -s
echo "/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/librtmp0.conf
ldconfig
exit

I have the same error with /usr/bin/jockey-gtk and synaptic and psensor (and maybe with other software).
ImportError: librtmp.so.0: file not found.

Thanks to Chris Roberts, its fix works perfectly for jockey-gtk, synaptic, psensor.
All these errors are related to this change in the adress of librtmp.so.0

I faced this same error on a 12.04.2 upgraded from 10.04.
It also prevented Flash content to be displayed (in any browser) : the browser displayed an empty content (certainly because Flash crashed).
The symbolic link workaround worked for me.

Thank you Chris Roberts.
I faced this same error on a 12.04.2 upgraded from 10.04.
The impress service didn't work
The symbolic link workaround worked for me.
Now I can see printer and print from Libreoffice

Has anybody noticed this problem on 14.04 or 14.10? Seems like there's been no additional comments in over a year and I suspect the newer versions of pycurl do not suffer this problem.

utopic has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the utopic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release

[Expired for pycurl (Ubuntu Trusty) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Expired for pycurl (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]