Can't find library.

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:08:20PM -0400, Jerome Miecznikowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded, built, and installed GNU parted.  But when I try to 
> run it I get the message:
> 
> parted: error while loading shared libraries: libparted-1.6.12: cannot 
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> That's strange!  libparted-1.6.12 is a symbolic link in /usr/local/lib  
> ... and it resolves OK.  I checked my /etc/ld.so.conf and it does 

I'll assume that that means that you ran ldconfig after installing.

Have you checked the file permissions on the library?  I found a few
on my system the other day that were -r--------, and therefore quite
unuseable by anyone but root (the owner).


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