Newbie Build Question

NotFound julian.notfound at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 17:07:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Bruce <bruce.stockwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a blast learning PIR but my Ubuntu distro only had Parrot
> 0.4 and I wanted the latest. I decided to install Parrot from the svn
> source. I followed the instructions for downloading and configuring. I
> went the extra mile and ran make reallyinstall. Now I get the error
>
> error while loading shared libraries: libparrot.so.0.7.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I can see the file in /usr/local/lib

If I remember well, ubuntu does not have by default /usr/local/lib in
the ldconfig'ed directory lists.

You can add a line with '/usr/local/lib' to /etc/ld.so.conf and
execute: 'sudo ldconfig' to permanently fix the issue.

Or you can do: 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib'  for a quick test.

-- 
Salu2


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