From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 15:43:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD4916A43B for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:43:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mgedv.at (mail.mgedv.at [195.3.87.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDB343D83 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 15:43:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mgedv.at (SMTPServer) with ESMTP id 802B2186865; Thu, 4 May 2006 17:43:38 +0200 (MEST) From: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" To: "'Soo-Hyun Choi'" Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:43:52 +0200 Message-ID: <000101c66f91$8bbd7c30$01010101@avalon.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcZvkFd2lt0Nf8nJSgeBh51RAoG9mwAAJV+A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Shared Library Error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nospam@mgedv.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:44:00 -0000 > I did "ldconfig -R" and "ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib" but I still get > the error message. > So, how would you explicitly do with that if you get: > [shc@localhost ~]$firefox > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libgmodule-2.0.so.600" not found, > required by "libgtk-x11-2.0.so.600" if an executable is linked dynamically, it needs loading shared libraries. ldconfig is a way to define, where and in which order to find and load them. also have a look on ldd (man ldd). eg. you can do ldd libgtk-x11-2.0.so.600 in the dir where it resides, and find out, which files are missing. then check the other library for correctness and if it's really a shared library (not a symlink or somethink like that). try researching it a little bit ;-)