For SLACKWARE users or other distribution rapid solution easy create link symbolic Create the symbolic link to the library and run the debugger again and this time it should work in the git repository as well. ;-) $ su ln -s /usr/lib64/libxcb-util.so /usr/lib64/libxcb-util.so.0 or $ su cd /usr/lib64 ln -s libxcb-util.so libxcb-util.so.0 I am not an expert on these things but something is apt let me know if the solution is also valid in other distributions including the most used ones debian, ubuntu,...