Questions tagged [libraries]
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 it Conventional to put libraries and include into standard directories like /usr/lib/ after installing a package with Make
After installing mesa-12.0.0, I have the library and header files in
~/Downloads/mesa-12.0.0/lib
~/Downloads/mesa-12.0.0/include
Is it better to simply add the path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or should ...
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cannot find libarary error
I am trying to install a software "W" which requires some non standard packages like "XYZ". I am installing XYZ as instructed in the related site using the following commands
./configure -C
make
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Problem finding required libraries on ubuntu 16.04
I have used the following command
sudo apt-get install coinor-cbc
and get the following result
coinor-cbc is already the newest version
However, when I am building a package which require some non-...
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Upgrading Python3 Without Breaking Access to lib Folder
Upgrading Python3 package is always a big pain for me. Every time I upgrade from one version, e.g. 3.7.0, to another, e.g. 3.7.1, my python script loses access to my /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-...
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Tricky issue with stata and libpng
I use stata 14 in Linux mint 19.3. For some reason stata has a problem with the libpng included in Linux mint 19. To fix that, I followed a fix that installs an older version of libpng (see here) to ...
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List all 32 Bit packages on a Gentoo System
How can I get a list of all installed 32 Bit packages on a Gentoo Linux system?
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Rebuild from src.rpm using new version
This is a follow up to my previous question regarding Building QuantLib on Amazon Linux.
I followed the instructions in the answer posted by MLu:
Download the source RPM (QuantLib-1.4-7.el7.src.rpm)
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Building QuantLib on Amazon Linux
I am trying to get QuantLib version 1.13 running on Amazon Linux.
I found some .rpm files at https://pkgs.org/download/QuantLib, although there is an up to date .rpm for Fedora, there isn't one for ...
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The same curl binary shows different version of openssl on 2 different servers
so I have built curl (possibly incorrectly) on debian 9 x64, and after curl -V command I can see that it uses the new version:
OpenSSL/1.1.0f
After that, I copied the very same library into ...
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Weird problem with CUDA installation
I am experiencing a rather unusual problem with my CUDA installation on Linux Mint 18.3. After a clean reboot, running deviceQuery as a standard user: optirun ./deviceQuery returns FAIL, but if I do:
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How to run programs with ld-linux.so?
The dynamic linker can be run either indirectly by running some dynamically linked program or shared object (in which case no command-line options to the dynamic linker can be passed and, in the ELF ...
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Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly
I am using Docker with image of Ubuntu 16.04. I am using this docker to run:
Import C++ classes in python with the help of boost.python
Import matlab's python package in python with the help Matlab ...
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Undefined symbols : how do I figure dependency resolution?
I am trying to figure out how to handle the lack of dependency resolution in Slackware.
I installed Gnumeric from slackware.pkgs.org, but it won't run with a number of
** (gnumeric:10645): ...
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Centos 7, I thought “yum install ___” was supposed to get all the dependencies, too?
I'm trying to get back into *nix again after many years away, and I'm running into a few headaches that I'm hoping you can help me with.
I want to install Trillian onto my CentOS 7 box. I went to ...
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Cannot install libgstreamer-0.10 [duplicate]
I' using Debian 9
Cannot install libgstreamer-0.10.so
I tried
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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install vips library in openbsd
On OpenBSD, I need to install sharp, which require the vips library.
When I use a prebaked vips tarball,
<stephane@bandersnatch.22decembre.eu:/usr/local/src/libvips/vips-8.7.0> ./configure ...
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Installing dev libraries locally
I need to install libpng-dev locally on a system where I do not have sudo access This is required to compile a C application. What is the best way to proceed with this? Can this be installed from ...
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How to verify that the installation of Apache Server works?
Debian 9.5
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (httpd)
After installing Apache from the official page with sudo make install, I want to check that the installation works starting the server:
$ sudo /usr/local/...
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Cannot compile, missing libncurses5-dev
When I try
make menuconfig
I get this
Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev
When I try to install it
Package libncurses5-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
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Use uClibc for single package
I'm having some issues using busybox and dns lookups. I found a claim that this a glibc problem. I'm on gentoo. I would like to compile busybox against uClibc, without replacing glibc on the system.
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How do I trace library loading?
I have program that depends on library that is linked to libboost 1.67, which installed in the system. When I launch it, I have an error that libboost_system.so.1.58 does not exist. LD_PRELOAD and ...
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Fix hardcoded dynamic linking for executable
I have an executable file called reg with the following shared library dependencies:
[terminal]$ ldd ./reg
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffc40d90000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (...
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How do you wii-u-gc-adapter working on 64-bit debian?
Following these guides (https://github.com/ToadKing/wii-u-gc-adapter/blob/master/README.md and https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/how-use-official-gc-controller-adapter-wii-u/#Linux) - I've tried ...
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Python trace back: import aiml
Looking to run an AIML chatbot:
thufir@dur:~/python-aiml-chatbot$
thufir@dur:~/python-aiml-chatbot$ pip install python-aiml
Collecting python-aiml
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/...
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compiling i3 under cygwin - cannot find libiconv library
I am trying to compile i3 version 4.14.1 under Cygwin 2.884 (Windows 7). I have installed needed libiconv library via Cygwin setup but while running ./configure I get this error:
configure: error: in ...
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Undefined symbol in libharfbuzz
I am using MATLAB on Arch Linux and I am running into problems. When I try and open the help (doc) I get the following error
/opt/tmw/matlab/sys/jxbrowser/glnxa64/xulrunner/xulrunner-linux-64/...
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Cannot run python file, asks to relink libraries [closed]
I'm trying to run a python file, but it doesn't allow me to, showing an error:
python3: Relink `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1` with `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1` for IFUNC symbol `...
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CentOS with nodeworx
I have a server CentOS 6.9 with interworx and I can't install libstdc++-static.
When I do sudo yum install -y libstdc++-static
returns with:
No package libstdc++-static available.
How can I ...
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De-prioritize ld.conf.so.d library path resolution
From a separate question, and other articles on the subject, it appears that additional library paths defined by ld.so.conf.d will always be resolved (i.e. in the case of a name clash, such as when ...
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Web browser ephiphany fault
I just upgraded to the 3.29.1 version using yast, but when launching it trows the next message:
epiphany: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/epiphany/libephymisc.so:
undefined symbol: ...
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Could not load program iperf3 after install on AIX 7.1 Server
I don't seem to find any solution to my AIX related problem when attempting to use iperf3 after install:
root@dxxxxxxx in /: iperf3 -s
Could not load program iperf3:
Could not load module /opt/...
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Which is the “standard” configuration parser library used in Linux?
A very simple question, but very difficult to find.
In an Linux application I don't want to use "my own" configuration parser, but use the one which (should be?) is already available. Simple to keep ...
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Install libstdc++ 4.9.x from source but compiled with glibc 2.14
I am on a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Linux version 2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64
(mockbuild@x86-042.build.eng.bos.redhat.com)
(gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)...
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Steam won't start on Arch Linux - possibly libGL error (nvidia)
Whenever I try to launch Steam I get the "Steam upgrading" loading screen for a split second and then every Steam process dies.
When I run steam, steam-runtime or steam-native in terminal I get ...
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Uninstall Netcdf and HDF libraries from Ubuntu
I have installed certain packages like ZLIB, HDF, and NETCDF for some model simulation purposes. Now, i have to redo some steps while configuring these packages (ZLIB, HDF, NETCDF), which means i need ...
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Cmake can't find X11 libs
I'm trying to compile a GUI-based package on my RHEL 7.2 (XFCE environment). But every time I run cmake .. , it fails with the report:
[user@localhost build]$ cmake ..
-- BUILD TYPE set to the ...
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How to execute library commands from the shell?
I wanted to simply calculate the length of a string (that is hash value). So, I opened terminal and did this:
$ apropos length
that returned me with a bunch of commands/functions having (3) or (3ssl)...
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To install XMLSECURITY library
Trying to build wmvare tools for 32 bit Centos 7. ./configure complains regarding XMLSECURITY library:
Cannot find XMLSECURITY library. Please configure without XMLSECURITY (using --without-xml-...
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Undefined reference problems with libusb
I'm trying to use pyuvc module which depends on libuvc which depends on libusb. However, when I try to import uvc in python, I get
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/libuvc.so.0: undefined symbol: ...
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Install both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of libgoogle-perftools-dev
I am on Debian Stretch and need google-perftools to profile some programs of mine. My machine is 64-bit; I build the programs for both 64 and 32-bit (using gcc -m32). I want to be able to profile both....
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Can not run rpm and yum because I deleted libnss by mistake. How to repair it?
It's an Amazon RHEL server and I deleted the libnss by running
rpm --nodeps -e nss-*;
package-cleanup --cleandupes;
Now when I run rpm I get an error:
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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list the link files of a process [duplicate]
Saying that there is a running process named a.
Is it possible to list all of the lib files that a needs, including static link files and dynamic link files (.a, .so)?
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Is there no usb_find_busses() in the recent libusb version?
I referenced from some web pages for developing usb enumeration function with libusb. I've installed libusb-1.0-dev on my linux, but the compiler told me that the usb_init() and usb_find_busses() are ...
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Pandoc is missing a library file [closed]
pandoc-citeproc is missing a library file:
[max@arch ~]$ pandoc-citeproc
pandoc-citeproc: error while loading shared libraries: libHStext-icu-0.7.0.1-qGJENUzIfHIw3gGVnpCOt-ghc8.2.2.so: cannot open ...
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Apt not working due to lack of libstdc++ after Debian upgrade : “`GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by apt-get)”
I was trying to perform upgrade from Debian 6 to 7.11 (wheezy). I've changed sources.list to:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ ...
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using ldconfig and ld.so.conf versus LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I often build various libraries from source code to play with, such as gmp-6.1.2, mpfr-4.0.1, and gcc-7.x. In doing so, I prefer to use --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-7.2.0 so I know exactly where it is ...
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Why do I have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running a program, even though I already linked the library locations in the compile stage? [duplicate]
I am compiling a model using make; the model has a Makefile that connects the source code with dependent libraries via flags that look like -L/lib1 -L/lib2. But when I try to run that model, it fails ...
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How to find out configuration/installaiton settings of program/library/compiler
My question is somewhat open-ended, therefore, I will ask it specifically in the context of DLIB, however, any general advice would be appreciated.
We are an R&D company and we do extensive ...
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Google Chrome starts but fails to open https websites: “This site can’t be reached”
These were Chrome's error messages on the command line:
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
[11850:11915:0210/111421.109731:ERROR:bus.cc(394)] ...
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why are .pc files not listed in one place
I am on Debian buster. I was reading the manpage of pkg-config and found that .pc files are and can be listed in many places . From the manpage -
pkg-config retrieves information about ...
