Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:10 AM, filip <filip@fbvnet.be> wrote:
> On Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400
> Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it),
>> see
>> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=166506&p=855700#p855700
>>
>> But the essence of the problem appears to be
>>
>> me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
>> bash: /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin: No such file or
>> directory [127]me@it ~ $
>> lsalh /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root
>> staff 44K Mar 6 2012 /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
>
> Try the following:
>
> file /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
> ldd /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin
>
> The first command will tell you what kind of file it is, and the second
> will list the shared libraries that it is linked to (assuming it
> actually is a dynamically linked executable).
>
> This is a completely non-standard installion, and my guess is that the
> dynamic linker doesn't have the path to the libraries.
>
> Look in /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d what path names are
> configured in the dynamic linker. You probably need to add a new path
> with the location the non-standard firefox libraries. Try to find where
> the libraries are installed (somewhere under /usr/local/share maybe ?),
> and create a new .conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d
>
> After that, run ldconfig -v to rebuild to ld.so cache.
It would be better to prepend "ldd ..." (and the actual firefox
command) with "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28:standard_path"
rather than add "/usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28" to the system path.
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