Difference between revisions of "Ldconfig"

Latest revision as of 10:27, 3 December 2008

Getting the following error?:

error while loading shared libraries

Here's how to solve the problem. In order to add a shared library in your linux environment perform the following steps:

• Locate with find the emplacement of the shared object. We'll call it herein lib.so.

> find / | grep lib.so

• Go to /usr/lib:

> cd /usr/lib

• Make a symbolic link to it:

> ln -s $LOCATION/lib.so.0.0.0 lib.so
> ln -s $LOCATION/lib.so.0.0.0 lib.so.0

• Reload the library cache

> /sbin/ldconfig

If you get permissions denied, then perform the commands with sudo in front.