Try running tesseract again to see if ldconfig has fixed it. --Sven
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Sriranga(77yrsold) <[email protected] > wrote: > 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. >> >> -- >> <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. >> <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "tesseract-ocr" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<tesseract-ocr%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tesseract-ocr%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > -- ``All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. >From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en.

