[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis-liblouisxml installation truble

  • From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:30:36 +0100

Hi

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 07:02 -0500, aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My next step was to run lou_allround to ensure that everything thus
> far had worked successfully.  When I tried running lou_allround, I got
> an error message that lou_allround could not find liblouis.so.0.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what is wrong?  I tried finding some log
> files that might have the error messages from make and make install,
> but the only log file was configure.log (and the last line of that
> read "configure return 0" which I take to indicate success.).

On Ubuntu (and probably on any Debian based system) you'll have to
update the library path when you install any new libraries. Otherwise
they will not be found (as the error message implies). So you should
just type "sudo ldconfig". See also man ldconfig.

Hope that helps.
Christian
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