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fratrik
Asked: 2012-06-20 15:46:21 +0800 CST

What's the best way to add a directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

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I installed an application in a non-standard place. When I run it I get

error while loading shared libraries: libthrift-0.9.0-dev.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can fix this by adding the directory to the environmental variable $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I wonder if there's a better solution.

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  1. Best Answer

    If you want this to be system-wide, you can add the directory to the ld.so configuration. This will make the dynamic linker always check that directory when looking for libraries to load.

    To do this, just add a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ (it should end in .conf), containing the full path of the directory.

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