Hi Sebastian,

Ok, the user confirmed that he in fact had installed in manually... With 
apt-get it landed in /usr/lib as expected.

Cheers
Maik

Am 24.02.2016 um 06:34 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hi Maik,
>
> some distributions do not include /usr/local/lib directories to the 
> default library search path. However, most build systems default the 
> build directory to be prefixed as /usr/local to avoid conflicts with 
> other libs installed by the package manager. So developers who build 
> own packages sometimes have to adjust the library search path as you 
> described in your Readme or have to change the prefix while building 
> the library.
>
> The strange thing here is that the reporter says he installed the 
> package via apt-get. But packages should usually not install to 
> /usr/local. So probably it is not an official package and the package 
> creator did not configure the install prefix the right way. Any idea 
> what package it was? AFAIK liblensfun 0.3.2 is not yet available in 
> ubuntu or debian repos.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Sebastian
>
> Am 2016-02-24 00:28, schrieb Maik Riechert:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A Linux user of my python wrapper lensfunpy reported an issue about
>> ldconfig not searching in /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu after
>> installing lensfun via apt-get:
>>
>> https://github.com/neothemachine/lensfunpy/issues/8
>>
>> I'm no expert on these things which is why I'm asking you guys for help.
>> Does anyone have an idea why these things happen? Shouldn't all the
>> paths be registered correctly after installing lensfun through apt-get?
>> Or am I missing something obvious?
>>
>> Note that I already have a general suggestion in my README for the
>> /usr/local/lib case:
>>
>> ###
>> If you get the error "ImportError: liblensfun.so.0: cannot open shared
>> object file: No such file or directory" when trying to use lensfunpy,
>> then do the following:
>>
>> echo  "/usr/local/lib"  |  sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/99local.conf
>> sudo ldconfig
>>
>> The lensfun library is installed in /usr/local/lib and apparently this
>> folder is not searched for libraries by default in some Linux 
>> distributions.
>> ###
>>
>> For the user above the folder however is
>> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. But even for /usr/local/lib I don't
>> understand why this is necessary on some systems.
>>
>> Any advice is appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Maik
>>
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