Maybe ldconfig is not looking for the correct directory.

Add the line where libgretl is, (looks like: /usr/local/lib) to
/etc/ldconfig.d/gretl or /etc/ldconfig.conf.

(I am away from Ubuntu right now so excuse any wrong paths/names).

Hélio

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Matthieu Stigler
<matthieu.stigler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ricardo for the answer!
>
> so should I run this $sudo ldconfig in any folder? I just tried and did not
> change it., see:
> $ sudo ldconfig
> [sudo] password:
>
> $ gretl
> /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: error while loading shared libraries:
> libgretl-1.0.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> are you assuming with the ldconfig approach that the "libgretl-1.0.so.4" is
> somewhere, just badly linked? I could not even locate it on the folders...
> where is it supposed to be?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Mat
>
> 2012/10/9 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthieu Stigler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am trying to compile gretl on Ubuntu 11.04, and get a problem, probably
>>> a
>>> stupid one...
>>>
>>> Even if installation (./configure without options, then make, then
>>> checkinstall) is sucessfull, I then get while trying to launch gretl:
>>> $ gretl
>>> /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: error while loading shared libraries:
>>> libgretl-1.0.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>>> directory
>>
>>
>> Try
>>
>> sudo ldconfig
>>
>> This should fix it once and for all.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>  Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
>>  Dipartimento di Economia
>>
>>  Università Politecnica delle Marche
>>  (formerly known as Università di Ancona)
>>
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