This package seems broken:
$ pacman -Q whisper.cpp-cuda
whisper.cpp-cuda 1.7.3-1
$ whisper.cpp
whisper.cpp: error while loading shared libraries: libggml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ ldd /usr/bin/whisper.cpp
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007f941d7e9000)
libwhisper.so.1 => /usr/lib/libwhisper.so.1 (0x00007f941d715000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f941d400000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f941d311000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f941d6e7000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f941d120000)
libggml.so => not found
libggml-cpu.so => /usr/lib/libggml-cpu.so (0x00007f941d084000)
libggml-base.so => /usr/lib/libggml-base.so (0x00007f941cfca000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f941d7eb000)
libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 (0x00007f941d692000)
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Bink commented on 2026-05-04 02:39 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-17 23:08 (UTC) by Bink)
If you're having trouble installing this because of build failure in
libggml-cuda-git, I suggest first installingllama.cpp-cuda-gitwhich also satisfies thelibggml-cuda-gitdependency, and is not failing to build.