the problem with Linux?

[Anton Markov]

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Hi,

I believe you have to run "ldconfig" as root after installing the
library for it to be found by the dynamic linker. As far as availability
of packages goes, I would (once again) recommend Debian. Since I started
using it, the only three non-packaged programs I have had to install where:
- - Sun JDK1.4
- - Quake3 Arena Demo
- - UT2004 Demo (which doesn't work because of lack of "DXTC/S3TC"
compressed texture support. There is some CVS patch work-around, but I
am too lazy.)

Reason: all these are proprietary/can't be packaged. However, they all
come with good commercial installers.

Actually, I think someone should (has?) come up with a GUI for executing
the usual "./configure;make;make install" steps and analyzing any errors.

Moniz Family wrote:
> I'm just going through something similar. I wanted to install
> "listener", which requires the libsndfile libraries, which I installed
> (compiled) in /usr/local/lib. Then I compiled listener from
> /usr/local/listener-0.4 directory. When I run listener, it can't find a
> library that was installed from the libsndfile libraries. The library
> exists and I tried locating it in several places, but it always says it
> doesn't exist. I have run into this various times doing other compiles
> and it definitely is a weakness of linux for a regular user. As long as
> I can rpm, I'm OK, but tar balls are a pain. And not every program is
> packaged.


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