i do a locate libxml2.so.2 and i see this version of libxml

/snap/atom/282/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/atom/282/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.10
/snap/code/82/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.4
/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.4
/snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.4
/snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/gnome-3-34-1804/77/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.4
/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/87/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/87/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.10
/snap/snap-store/547/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/snap-store/547/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.4
/snap/snap-store/558/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/snap/snap-store/558/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.10
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.10
/usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2
/usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2.8.0

when i try to execute

gnome-control-center

i get this error

  gnome-control-center: /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2: version `LIBXML2_2.9.0' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgoa-backend-1.0.so.1)
    gnome-control-center: /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2: version `LIBXML2_2.9.0' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1)

who can i fix this

CodePudding user response：

It looks like the same problem experienced here, try to move your libxml files from /usr/local/lib/ to somewhere else. Try this

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/libxml2* ~