Ubuntu Karmic fail: Pidgin and the new Empathy won’t run until you make this fix

“At least both apps seem to be suffering from the same problem,
and luckily there is already a bug (#459940) on it in Launchpad.
The bug is for the package opencv, and

“According to notes on the bug, other GNOME applications
affected by the problem include the Totem video player, the Brasero
disc burner and Rhythmbox music player.

“I can confirm that on my system, every one of those apps will
not run.”

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