[sword-devel] Gnomesword problem

fred smith sword-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 06:12:47 -0500


On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:04:13AM -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've lurked here awhile and have attempted a few time to get Sword to
> compile on my RH 6.2 system. I finally got it to compile and began
> working on Gnome Sword. I finally got it to compile. When I type
> gnomesword in a terminal window it gives me this error:
> 
> "gnomesword: error in loading shared libraries: libsword.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory"

> 
> I have a libsword.so file in my /usr/local/sword/lib directory. I don't

Did you type:

	ldconfig

when logged in as (or 'su'ed to) root?

> know what I am doing wrong, I haven't a clue. I have searched my archive
> of the messages to this list and have found no help.
> 
> Any light that can be provided would be of great blessing.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jimmie Houchin

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