64 bit Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>On 9/2/2011 8:11 AM, Ed Hilovsky wrote:
>[...]
>> /var/appl/fp/runmenu: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> libtermcap.so.2 is linked to libtermcap.so.2.0.8 under /lib64 and doesn't
>> exist in /lib
>>
>> Trying a symbolic link in /lib still doesn't help.
>[...]
>
>In what directory does libtermcap.so.2 reside?  (I forget the rules, but I 
>believe it has to be in a directory on PATH or maybe LIBPATH.)

The environment variable is LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Also check the /etc/ld.so.conf file which contains an 'include'
statement pointing to a directory of specific libraries and other
libraries which are used by the 'ldconfig' program to build the
shared library cache file used by the loader to find shared libs.

Bill
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