A library is a collection of functionality that programs can use. They can be dynamically loaded by a program, or they may be compiled into the program.

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is there a libboost-all instead of libboost-all-dev?

I need libboost dependency for a package I'm running, but the only package I can find is libboost-all-dev, and I'm not sure what the "dev" means and if I need it. Is there a ...
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ldd tells me my app is “not a dynamic executable”

I have a 32-bit application (called uclsyn) I received from an astronomy professor. I managed to get it running on CentOS a year ago, but now when I am setting up a new CentOS VM, it won't run and I ...
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lsusb outputs “Illegal Instruction” - why?

I'm trying to get a 3G USB dongle to work on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Wheezy, using a script called sakis3g. However, in trying to do this, I keep running into problems: when trying to connect ...
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Difference between lib, lib32, lib64, libx32, and libexec

My 64 bit Ubuntu 13.04 system has the following directories in /: lib lib32 lib64 libx32 libexec In the /usr directory there is: lib lib32 libx32 libexec This seemed like something that could be ...
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Need general guide on how to build Linux Stream (LiS) under RedHat 6.2

Day 1 I have hit into some error, and the build simply fail, saying that there is some conflict. Thus I believe a .o file cannot be made and then result fatal error during linking, anyone have steps ...
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Installing required libs/frameworks/packages for compilation on OSX

I'm trying to compile SmartSim for OSX Lion, and at the moment I'm at the ./configure stage. Here is a dump of what I've managed to get so far: $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... ...
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How do I know which library and man page will be found first?

With binaries, I can always do which foo to know which binary I am invoking with $ foo, but what about man pages? Is there a way to know the path of the man page will be loaded by default? Similarly, ...
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Invoking a script with ld-linux.so?

I just downloaded a tar file that is supposed to include everything required to run a program that we can call some_binary. I extracted it's contents, and I see the following: A binary (let's call ...
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How do I get rid of unnecessary mp3 tags in my music library?

I have a massive bunch of music. Some of the tracks have unnecessary MP3 flags. How can I get rid of them?
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Effect if any of changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH environnment variable on emacs fonts?

The rendering of my emacs fonts changes if I define a specific list of directories under the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable just before I call emacs. I changed this because I wanted to use emacs ...
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Will GNOME and GTK libs bloat up my KDE?

I want to use Shutter. I installed it previously under Kubuntu and it needed a lot of libs. What bothered me most was that Kubuntu wanted me to restart, that is rare for OS's nowadays and in general ...
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How to manually install a cpp library

I want to install the opengl sdk http://glsdk.sourceforge.net/docs/html/pg_build.html . I successfully built it but it has no install script. I am wondering where I have to put them in order for ...
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libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

I have archlinux on my x86_64 laptop with NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT graphics. I can start x, but when I try to run programs like xfce4-terminal I get: xfce4-terminal: error while loading shared ...
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About ncurses header file [closed]

I' running Fedora 15 (32-bit). But I can`t compile and run an ncurses program. Also, colours are not working in the terminal. What can I do to fix this?
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Setting Up Cross Compiler, Linux x86_64 to Solaris 10 SPARC

I have a student account for a Solaris 10 SPARC server at the university I go to, and I thought it would be interesting to set up a cross-compiling GCC on my home Linux x86_64 computer so that I could ...
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Is there a convention for adding .pc files for pkg-config?

I installed a library via apt but it added no .pc file to the pkg-config dir. When I built another manually it got added. Is there a convention for libs automatically creating a .pc file and if so ...
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/etc/ld.so.conf doesn't contain /usr/lib

I am using pkg-config to help supply the correct libs during c++ compilation. As I understand it, it searches in directories supplied by /etc/ld.so.conf. My ld.so.conf references the following lib ...
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Using symbolic links and git to manage build versions

In general I follow the following workflow when I build any program (e.g. emacs, tmux, etc.) /home/opt/[name of the program]/builds/[version]/ bin lib share For example for a program like tmux I ...
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Use shared libraries in /usr/local/lib

I have build some libraries from sources, and the files after make install are in /usr/local/lib For example, in my case I have the file libodb-2.2.so which is in this directory. However when I ...
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mod_rewrite: undefined symbol: lstat error

I compiled the mod rewrite for apache (version 1.3.0) however, when I try to run the server I have this error about mod_rewrite: Syntax error on line 27 of /home/myuser/apache/etc/httpd.conf: Cannot ...
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How does gcc know where boost is installed

I installed boost using sudo apt-get install on Ubuntu. Later I did not have to give gcc the I flag alongwith the path to the boost libraries to use boost ! Nor did I do any pkg-config --cflags --libs ...
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Cannot find lib in path

I am trying to start a program that relies on some libraries that are in my path, however, the program says it cannot find the files: 11:45:27 ~ > echo $PATH ...
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Failure to install MySQL

I attempted to install MySQL using Synaptic but it failed to start on update with the following output: Selecting previously unselected package mysql-client. (Reading database ... 131143 files and ...
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Introspection of the interface of a shared library

I have a problem with a library I'm working with for the first time ( it's Boost.Python but my question is much more general than this case). As a consequence I need to check what is the interface of ...
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Missing 32 bit library on a 64 bit Linux install

I am trying to figure out why Eclipse is complaining about being unable to find a library. I've managed to reproduce/reduce the java problem to: $ ldd ...
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Which library are LO headers belonging to?

I'm trying to configure liquidsoap and compile it from source. The ./configure process gets stuck at this point: checking lo/lo.h usability... no checking lo/lo.h presence... no checking for ...
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Python bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar are not working on debian

I'm running Debian 6.0.6 I've downloaded latest version of libtorrent-rasterbar from here: http://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/downloads/detail?name=libtorrent-rasterbar-0.16.6.tar.gz&can=2 and ...
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Viewing Linux Library / Executable version info

In Windows, EXE and DLL have version info, including at least the following fields: file version product version internal name product name copyright In Linux Library / Executable: Which fields ...
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Difference between system calls and library functions

I have been through the answer of this question but do not quite understand the difference between system calls and library functions. Conceptually, what is the difference between the two?
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ELF shared libraries - motivation for the PLT

Could self-modifying code be used to speed up function calling in dynamically linked libraries? As far as I understand it, ELF shared libraries use a kind of indirect jump table (the procedure ...
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Installing shared library - questions and problems

I'm having trouble "installing" a shared library I download online. The library name is run time access (http://www.runtimeaccess.com/). In the quick start guide, they explain how to use the library ...
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ffmpeg and libvpx: error while loading shared libraries

When I run ffmpeg I get the following error: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Output of ls -l ...
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ntp cannot open shared object file: Permission denied

On a server I haven't worked on, ntpd is broken: # /etc/init.d/ntpd start ntpd: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied but permissions ...
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Installation of MPFR previous versions of GMP clash

So it's a common error when installing MPFR that if more than one version of libgmp are installed you hit errors. This is quite well documented in the INSTALL file, If I run locate libgmp the result ...
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Using Atlas from scipy

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit. I need to work with python and scipy, I installed them and when I run the test: python -c "import scipy; scipy.test()" I get the message: ImportError: ...
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Library Migration

I have one pre-compiled shared library, which require GLIBC-2.9 But I want to use it against GLIBC-2.8. I am very much sure, source code have not used any function which was introduces in 2.9 Since ...
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Build Gimp from custom-path libraries

I'm installing Gimp (2.6.10) on Debian. The system has all the required libraries (dependencies) installed in the default directories, so giving to Gimp ./configure && make && make ...
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Package installation and dependancies - how to prevent installation of existing libraries?

I'm a relatively new Ubuntu server user, so I'm learning as I go. I have an issue with a software package I'm installing (QGIS) which has several dependancies one of them being gdal library. ...
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Accidentally removed dev-libs/mpc from Gentoo

It seems I accidentally removed dev-libs/mpc instead of media-sound/mpc. Now I can't compile anything (including a replacement dev-libs/mpc) because in doing so I apparently murdered GCC. How does ...
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strange noise in some gui programs

I have Debian testing, I use XFCE. Recently, shortly after dist-upgrade, I noticed that XFCE terminal has some noise in it - especially near the end of long lines or when I use midnight commander. The ...
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How to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH to all users and system services

I want to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH to system services and all users. System services are run before login, so .bashrc is not applicable. How to achieve this?
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libbfd-2.22.so missing while compiling Binutils/Glibc/Zlib

When I try to compile Binutils, Glibc and Zlib using chroot on my LFS system, I get this error: ar: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.22.so: cannot open shared object file: No such ...
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libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in application and library

libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.39 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.4.0 libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in application ...
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Where did /usr/lib64 go and what is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu?

I have two Ubuntu-x86_64 systems. One is version 10.04, the other 12.04 and there is a difference in the structure of the lib directories. This doesn't surprise me, but I'm curious if anyone knows ...
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How do I get a list of shared library filenames under Linux?

Is there a GNU Linux built-in for getting a list of the filenames of shared libraries? I have considered parsing the output of ldconfig -p. However, I'm not sure about consistency in output from ...
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Building GCC inside a chroot from source

In a previous question I asked about creating a chroot that simulates my embedded device environment. It was suggested that I build from source GCC and binutils first inside my chroot. To attempt this ...
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Can I use a chroot on my dev machine to build an application to run on embedded linux installation?

I am trying to develop an application to run on an embedded linux installation. It comes with an older version of libc than I have on my development maching. If I were to create a chroot environment ...
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Download and Install 32-bit Haskell GHC on CentOS

I need to install Haskell GHC 32 bit from the command line and I can't find this anywhere. I need to install it because I need libgmp.so.3 for the 32-bit and i have read somewhere that I can find it ...
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error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

anisha@linux-y3pi:~/> google-earth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory anisha@linux-y3pi:~/> locate ...
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Is there a way to use/recompile libgio-2.0 on machine with libc-2.5?

I have a program (JavaFX 2, namely), and one of its binaries (libglass.so) requires libgio-2.0.so.0. The problem is, the system, on which I need to run the app, is quite old and mostly out of my ...

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