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) >> >> r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it >> http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti >> -------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> Gretl-users mailing list >> Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu >> http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users