{"id":5192,"date":"2026-04-02T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:50:13","slug":"node-js-node-error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libatomic-so-1-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5192","title":{"rendered":"Node.js node: error while loading shared libraries: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was installing Node.js v25.9.0 as a standalone pre-built binary installation and ended up after a successful installation getting the following when attempting to run a &#8220;node -v&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ node -v\nnode: error while loading shared libraries: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To resolve this, I just needed to install the missing library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt install libatomic1<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then attempting to re-run the command, I get the version output as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ node -v\nv25.9.0<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was installing Node.js v25.9.0 as a standalone pre-built binary installation and ended up after a successful installation getting the following when attempting to run a &#8220;node -v&#8221;. To resolve this, I just needed to install the missing library. Then attempting to re-run the command, I get the version output as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-docker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}