unable to launch app due to "cannot open shared object file"

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:02 PM -0700 5/19/07, stan wrote:
>On Sat, 19 May 2007 16:56:56 -0500
>Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
>
>> $ openmovieeditor: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libgavl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> [1]+  Exit 127                openmovieeditor
>>
>> I then ran:
>> $ locate libgavl.so
>> /home/tom/temp/gavl-0.2.5/gavl/.libs/libgavl.so
>> /home/tom/temp/gavl-0.2.5/gavl/.libs/libgavl.so.0
>> /home/tom/temp/gavl-0.2.5/gavl/.libs/libgavl.so.0.0.0
>> /usr/local/lib/libgavl.so
>> /usr/local/lib/libgavl.so.0
>> /usr/local/lib/libgavl.so.0.0.0
>>
>> I then brought up /etc/ld.so.conf and added
>> "include /usr/local/lib/", then I ran command: ldconfig
>> but no go.  Any solutions?
>> Tom
>
>This might be a long shot, but I'm thinking that it is a dependency
>that libgavi.so.0 needs that is causing the problem.  i.e. it is trying
>to call another library and it isn't there.  Not sure how you would
>verify that, unless it is in the logs somewhere, or you install the
>libgavi-devel package so you can then run gdb on the process to find
>out where it is failing.

My own guess is that libgavl's home in /usr/local/lib/ is not in the
default library search path in /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/.
ldconfig -p | grep '/usr/local' will probably be empty.  Google around a
bit before making too much of this; I've never done it myself.
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