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Re: shared libraries



On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> ChadDavis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm installing an application, oracle's instant client actually,
> > and I need to know where to put the shared libaries ( .so ).  I'm
> > pretty unfamiliar with development on Unix/Linux so I don't
> > exactly know how things work.  I suppose there's some sort of
> > path variable for locating shared libariries?  And  I suppose
> > there's some sort of convention for their location in the
> > filesystem?
> 
> Typically, "system" and "packaged" libraries go in /usr/lib, and
> "user installed" libraries go in /usr/local/lib or /opt/lib.
> 

Other places are also possible, as long as the directory is listed in
/etc/ld.so.conf.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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