Re: Trouble installing GNUnet 0.16.3 on Linux Mint

[Willow Liquorice]

Yep, just had to run ldconfig on the installation prefix and gnunet-arm 
was right as rain. Should probably make a note of this in the 
installation instructions...

On 04/06/2022 13:24, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On 6/4/22 14:02, Willow Liquorice wrote:
> > That's correct. Specifically, it's included in from 
> > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf.
> >
> > When Martin talks about the installation prefix, would that be 
> > /usr/local/lib, where the "unlocatable" libraries are?
>
> Yes.  Anyway, with running 'ldconfig' and having the path in the 
> configuration file, gnunet-arm should really start. If it does not, the 
> Mint linker would have to be very broken. In any case, a linker not 
> finding shared libraries despite the library location being correctly 
> configured is not a GNUnet issue, but a distro issue (that said, I still 
> think most likely you have a configuration issue that /usr/local/lib is 
> not searched by the linker as it should).
>
> My 2 cents
>
> Christian
>
> > On 04/06/2022 08:56, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > > Do you have /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf?
> > >
> > > -Christian
> > >
> > > On 6/3/22 20:09, Willow Liquorice wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've decided to try and update the (hideously outdated) GNUnet
> > > > installation on my system, and have ran into some trouble after
> > > > completing the process: "gnunet-arm -s" crashes as it can't find its 
> > > > own
> > > > shared library.
> > > >
> > > > I followed the conventional process for installation from the Git
> > > > repository:
> > > >
> > > > ./bootstrap
> > > > ./configure
> > > > make
> > > > sudo make install
> > > >
> > > > When I run "gnunet-arm -s" (or "sudo -u gnunet gnunet-arm -s") as the
> > > > various slightly different installation guides suggest, I am met with
> > > > the following message:
> > > >
> > > > gnunet-arm: error while loading shared libraries: libgnunetarm.so.2:
> > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > I'm stumped, as I've followed the installation instructions almost
> > > > exactly as they are in the README. I found the offending library in
> > > > /usr/local/lib:
> > > >
> > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       21 Jun  3 18:54 libgnunetarm.so.2 ->
> > > > libgnunetarm.so.2.0.0
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   106656 Jun  3 18:54 libgnunetarm.so.2.0.0
> > > >
> > > > Is this correct?
> > > >
> > > > Best wishes,
> > > >      Willow