How To Fix This Error: 'error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: can not open shared object file: No such file or directory' - Ubuntu / Debian

If you receive these types of errors under Ubuntu or any Debian-based system:

update-desktop-database: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (...)
/usr/bin/gdbus: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

You can simply fix all these with the following commands from the terminal:

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu


sudo ln -s libpcre.so.2.13.1 libpcre.so.3

Good luck!