Thanks Devrim, I can understand the prob, but when i tried to use the second method it raises the same error. And the first method can u tell me how to add the libpq.so.5 in conf file? since i am new to linux , so i dont know more about it... currently that file has only one line
include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf i tried including that but got error while ldconfig can u pls tell how to implement... * "Many of lifes failure are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison* 2009/5/14 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <dev...@gunduz.org> > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 14:57 +0530, S Arvind wrote: > > after installing pg_top, when i tried to start it, i got this msg, how > > to solve it > > > > # pg_top > > pg_top: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > So libpq.so.5 is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You may want to add the > directory that contains libpq.so.5 to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig > (as root). Another option might be running > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libpq.so.5 pg_top > > -HTH. > -- > Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE > Command Prompt - http://www.CommandPrompt.com > devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr > http://www.gunduz.org >