Thanks, Tamas! I sent in a pull request w/ my attempt at adding a note to the webpage. Also, I should note that the stackoverflow link you provided has a safer way of editing the .bashrc file (appending to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable):
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib" On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Tamas Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Steve, > > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ > > > > Is this something that should be added to the current documentation? Is > it > > a small bug? Or is it just a quirk of my systems (I had same behavior on > > two Ubuntu systems). > /usr/local/lib is usually on the linker's default path, so any library > that you > put there should be picked up automatically. On Ubuntu, this is not the > case so > that's why you have to add it to the linker path using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH > variable. Another way to do it is to edit /etc/ld.so.conf or some file in > /etc/ld.so.conf.d -- this will add /usr/local/lib to the linker path > permanently, for all users of the system. See the following question on > Stack Overflow: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17889799/libraries-in-usr-local-lib-not-found > > So yes, I think this issue is related to Ubuntu systems only, but as it is > a fairly common Linux distribution, I think it's worth adding a note to the > homepage. > > All the best, > -- > T. > > _______________________________________________ > igraph-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help >
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