On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:32:02PM -0500, Skippy VonDrake wrote: > >> I still don't understand why after installing it on the system the > >> libraries aren't linked up properly. > >> > >> $ guestfish --version > >> guestfish: error while loading shared libraries: libguestfs.so.0: > >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > Is /usr/local/lib in the dynamic linker path? You might need > > to add it to '/etc/ld.so.conf'. > > My linux skills are "questionable' but I'd thought something like that > would have already been properly configured when gcc gets pulled down > and installed with a package manager. But I'm learning... > > My ld.so.conf file references all '*.conf' in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/. And > /usr/local/lib is present in one of them.
Perhaps running '/sbin/ldconfig' would help? > In order to get libguestfs-test-tool to work I made this link: > sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libguestfs.so > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libguestfs.so.0 > > If there is a more correct solution please let me know. Well that's a pretty horrible solution, but if it works, then it works :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
