| Stephen Gran on 8 Dec 2004 17:56:01 -0000 |
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:21:15PM -0500, eric@lucii.org said: > Anybody have any idea about how to fix this? > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior from my SuSE 9.1 system when I > call on the pager, /usr/bin/less. > > Example: > [eric]$ less fetchmail/fetchmail.archive.001.gz > file: error while loading shared libraries: libmagic.so.1: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory The linker (ld.so) cannot find libmagic.so.1, a shared library that less needs to load at startup. `ldd /usr/bin/less` will confirm both that libmagic.so.1 is referenced and not found. My guess is that Suse's dependency tracking is suboptimal - it should not have allowed you to get in this situation in the first place. However, I am fairly sure they should have shared library versions of libmagic available. On rereading this, it may also be possible that you are just missing a symlink: steve@gashuffer:~$ ll /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2004-12-06 18:39 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 -> libmagic.so.1.0.0 Do you have a libmagic.so.1.0.0 ? If so, just (in the same directory) link it as above. > I do find libmagic.a and libmagic.la files but no libmagic.so.1 file. These are for static linking at build time, and information for the linker, respectively. They are not shared libraries. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | "Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, Kill | | steve@lobefin.net | the Wabbit!" -- Looney Tunes, "What's | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Opera Doc?" (1957, Chuck Jones) | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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