the problem with Linux?

[Moniz Family]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Moniz Family wrote:
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>>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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>Make sure /usr/local/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, then run
>ldconfig, and your lib should be possible to find.
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This worked (thanks Lennart and Anton).

I guess it still speaks to subject of this thread. That is, some things 
are not too intuitive and can be frustrating to make work. On the other 
hand, there are others that are actually very easy to install and configure.

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