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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How to remove a locally installed library?
I had just compiled and installed libc locally into my home directory. Sadly, after this, virtually every basic utility like ls and xz failed to function.
The error message prompted up when ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/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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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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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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No version information available?
How can I fix this problem? What is libzypp.so.1106 and and libaugeas.so.0? Why is this error repeated so many times in libzypp.so.1106?
zypper: /usr/local/lib64/libxml2.so.2: no version information ...
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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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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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Install development files locally to build on system without root access?
There is a server that I do work on, running an older version of Linux. I don't have root access to the system, so I wanted to build a more recent version of a tool that I use a lot (Vim 7.3). I ...
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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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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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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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32 bit appplication on 64 bit linux not working
I'm running linux mint LMDE 64 bit version, I have to install this i386 software to use my modem.
So I did it with --force-architecture mode, installation completed with errors.
Here is the log
dpkg: ...
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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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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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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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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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Why are shared libraries executable?
Why have almost all the shared libraries in /usr/lib/ have the executable permission bit set? I don't see any use case for executing them. Some do manage to hook-up some form of main function to print ...
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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 install DivFix++ under Scientific-linux 6.1?
I installed DivFix++ from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/divfixpp/files/DivFix%2B%2B/v0.34/
DivFix++-0.34-2.1.x86_64.rpm
$ env LC_MESSAGES=C DivFix++
Fatal Error: Mismatch between the program and ...
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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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Installing flash player for firefox
I would like to install flash player for Firefox on Linux.
I downloaded the .tar.gz, and there are some compiled shared libraries. I am not sure how to make them work, and I am looking for a hint.
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