[ghemical-devel] So close but ... libghemical.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Jean Bréfort]

Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 00:31 +1000, Dr. Seth Olsen a écrit :
> 
> Hi Ghemicalers,
> 
> I have made a new leap in my long frustrated quest to get ghemical to
> work on my new machine (FC4, gcc-4.0.1, w/ openbabel-1.100.2.&
> mopac7).  It has been highly educational.  However, when I invoke the
> executable it fails to start, giving the message:
> 
> ghemical: error while loading shared libraries: libghemical.so.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Which is odd because libghemical.so, libchemical.so.0 (both of which
> link to *.so.0.0.0) are clearly in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/lib
> is also in my path.  I have also added /usr/local/lib to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  No dice.  I even uninstalled OB-2.0 in favor of the
> previous latest version, to make sure it wasn't a compatability
> problem.

This type of error is very frustrating and not easy to fix some times.
Try:
ldconfig -p|grep libghemical
to test if the library loader finds it.
Check also the contents of libghemical.la if ldconfig finds the library.

Hope this helps

Best regards,
Jean Bréfort