Re: Missing links of libraries (*.so) on Debian 11

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Avtansh Gupta (12023-01-16):
> I recently noticed that some of the library soft links on my Debian 11
> system are missing which were there in the previous versions. I have a
> program loading one of these shared objects dynamically but is failing as
> it is unable to locate the file.
> 
> */usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaudit.so*
> 
> This is the missing .so file in debian11. This file was present on the
> previous versions of Debian and other Linux distros as well.
> 
> A similar pattern is observed with the other files(*.so) in the same folder.
> 
> Could someone let me know what the change is and what is the new convention
> being used?

The .so symbolic are not for running programs, they are for building
them. For running, you only need the .so.vers links.

If a program dynamically loads directly a .so, it is probably bugged.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George