How to add /sbin to useable paths on FC5

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Mar 4 17:38:14 UTC 2007


On Sunday 04 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
>I have a problem when compiling a library. I am upgrading Aldrin, a
> music app. The latest version needs a library that used to be
> integrated in Aldrin, but now needs to be installed separately. The
> library "libzzub" doesn't seem to be available for FC5, at least not in
> extras, or freshrpms.
>
>This library is built using scons, but when I su to root to do a "scons
>install" it insists on running ldconfig, which it can't as it's not
>calling /sbin/ldconfig, and lunches out saying there's a problem.
>
>I had a look in /etc/profiles, and I'm sure on an earlier version of FC,
> I added /sbin to the paths, but FC5 seems to be a bit different.
>
>What do I need to do, so that it is not necessary to call ldconfig
>as /sbin/ldconfig?

'su -' maybe?

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