Extract of terminal reproduced below.
srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/
srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo password
[sudo] password for sriranga:
sudo: password: command not found
srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo passwd
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo ldconfig
srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -L | -l | -V | -v
usage: sudo [-bEHPS] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid] [VAR=value]
{-i | -s | <command>}
usage: sudo -e [-S] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid] file ...
srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo ldconfig
srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ su
Password:
r...@ubuntu:/home/sriranga/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408# ldconfig
r...@ubuntu:/home/sriranga/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408#
Further valuable guidance solicted.
Regards,
-sriranga(77yrsold)
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, Sriranga(77yrsold) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Followed your guidance. extract of terminal is reproduced below:
> >
> > srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo
> ldconfigsrira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo ldconfig
> > srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo ldconfig[sudo]
> password for sriranga:
> > srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$
> >
> > Waited for half an hour nothing happens except blinking cursor.
>
> Facepalm.
>
> To be honest, the failure here us more mine, for expecting any sort of
> Linux experience from you, but I am a little dismayed that you would
> run a command with root privileges without so much as a basic check of
> what it should do first - what if I'd just given you a command to
> format your hard disk?
>
> There's nothing to wait for; Tesseract should now run without that
> error, because you have updated the shared library loader - any time
> you install software from source on Linux, it's the first command to
> try if the software doesn't work.
>
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> <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
> <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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