Load, make shared objects (.so libraries) available in Unix, script example

By neokrates, written on May 21, 2010

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New libraries need to be made available for the executables. ldconfig with /etc/ld.so.conf file could be used for that.

Software:

Ubuntu *

Should also work for:

Any Linux distro

Example: add xulrunner-1.9, if it is not yet installed, make .so objects available for all executables.

 problem=$(dpkg -s xulrunner-1.9|grep installed)
 echo Checking for libxul: $problem
 if [ "" == "$problem" ]; then
      echo "No libxul. Setting up libxul"
      sudo apt-get --force-yes --yes install xulrunner-1.9
      echo "/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/">>/etc/ld.so.conf
      ldconfig
 fi