Re: Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

On Tue Nov  3, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
> I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily
> adding packages.  Among them is the olvwm package.  When I try to
> invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message.  When I look
> in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there.  Apparently,
> the environment setup is not complete on my system.  SunOS uses
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Is it the same in Linux?
> 
> What else am I going to find that needs setting up?  Is there an easy
> way to do it all?

Try running ldconfig as root.

Noel