Dear Jochen

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jochen Schreiber
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> i have tried to install rdkit under ubuntu after it can't install it under 
> mac os x.
>
> On ubuntu ctest will fail and if i try to import something from rdkit in 
> python i became this output:
>
> jochen@ubuntu:~/RDKit/build$ python
> Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:03:08)
> [GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from rdkit import rdBase
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: libRDGeneral.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
> or directory
>
> What could be wrong?

That message is typically caused by one of two things:
1) your LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not include $RDBASE/lib
2) the boost python library cannot be found in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You can check by doing: "ldd $RDBASE/rdkit/rdBase.so" and checking
that there are no libraries that can't be found.

-greg

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