Re: Trouble installing GNUnet 0.16.3 on Linux Mint

Yep, just had to run ldconfig on the installation prefix and gnunet-arm 
was right as rain. Should probably make a note of this in the 
installation instructions...

On 04/06/2022 13:24, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On 6/4/22 14:02, Willow Liquorice wrote:
>> That's correct. Specifically, it's included in from 
>> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf.
>>
>> When Martin talks about the installation prefix, would that be 
>> /usr/local/lib, where the "unlocatable" libraries are?
> 
> Yes.  Anyway, with running 'ldconfig' and having the path in the 
> configuration file, gnunet-arm should really start. If it does not, the 
> Mint linker would have to be very broken. In any case, a linker not 
> finding shared libraries despite the library location being correctly 
> configured is not a GNUnet issue, but a distro issue (that said, I still 
> think most likely you have a configuration issue that /usr/local/lib is 
> not searched by the linker as it should).
> 
> My 2 cents
> 
> Christian
> 
>> On 04/06/2022 08:56, Christian Grothoff wrote:
>>> Do you have /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf?
>>>
>>> -Christian
>>>
>>> On 6/3/22 20:09, Willow Liquorice wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've decided to try and update the (hideously outdated) GNUnet
>>>> installation on my system, and have ran into some trouble after
>>>> completing the process: "gnunet-arm -s" crashes as it can't find its 
>>>> own
>>>> shared library.
>>>>
>>>> I followed the conventional process for installation from the Git
>>>> repository:
>>>>
>>>> ./bootstrap
>>>> ./configure
>>>> make
>>>> sudo make install
>>>>
>>>> When I run "gnunet-arm -s" (or "sudo -u gnunet gnunet-arm -s") as the
>>>> various slightly different installation guides suggest, I am met with
>>>> the following message:
>>>>
>>>> gnunet-arm: error while loading shared libraries: libgnunetarm.so.2:
>>>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> I'm stumped, as I've followed the installation instructions almost
>>>> exactly as they are in the README. I found the offending library in
>>>> /usr/local/lib:
>>>>
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       21 Jun  3 18:54 libgnunetarm.so.2 ->
>>>> libgnunetarm.so.2.0.0
>>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   106656 Jun  3 18:54 libgnunetarm.so.2.0.0
>>>>
>>>> Is this correct?
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>      Willow
>>>>
>>>
>>
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