Thanks! It worked when I finally rolled up my sleeves and made a link under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
As usually happens, once I did that, it finally occurred to me what I was doing wrong at first. I'd made a symlink to libedit under ~/j64-804/bin, but I'd been trying to invoke it with "RPATH=~/j64-804/bin ~/j64-804/bin/jconsole" rather than "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=...". Clearly, it's been too long since I've tried to muck around with library paths under Linux. Thanks again, Johann On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:30 PM Norman Drinkwater <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
