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

[Tom Poe]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>   
Well, everyone was helpful.  Turned out that when I ran "echo 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH" it was empty.  I added /usr/local/lib by typing (I 
think):  ]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib and then:
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

That should do it, at least until I have to shut down and boot up again.  :)
Tom
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