Re: ldconfig error messages

[Remco van de Meent <rvdmeent@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote:

 : ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/local/lib/libwinsock.so (No such file
 : or directory), skipping
 : ldconfig: warning: can't open usr/local/lib/libcommdlg.so (No such file
 : /or directory), skipping
 : 
 : etc...
 : 
 : Many of the programs I used to run from /usr/local are now part of the
 : debian distribution so I removed them.  How can I tell ldconfig not to
 : search for them?

You can safely remove the broken symlinks to your libraries in
/usr/local/lib and run ldconfig again. The warnings shouldn't appear again.

 -Remco