You need to make a symbolic link from libedit.so.2 to libedit.so. This only
happens on the 64-bit version, the 32-bit version works without the
symbolic link.
Norman

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Johann Hibschman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble updating J on my Ubuntu (14.04) Linux system. It can't
> find libedit.so.
>
> ldd can't find it.
>
> $ ldd jconsole
>         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffdb3f56000)
>         libedit.so => not found
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f32c3b81000)
>         libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
> (0x00007f32c394d000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f32c3588000)
>         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f32c3d85000)
>         libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
> (0x00007f32c335f000)
>
> I do have libedit.so.2, e.g.
>
> $ ldconfig -p | grep libedit
>         libedit.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) =>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.so.2
>
> and this is what the Installing J wiki mentions (
> http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/Linux), but the actual
> binary wants plain libedit.so, which I can't find anywhere.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
> Johann
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