help with error in Red hat enterprise3

woodyg

Hi need a little help with this error

"error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

will an rpm package install fix this?

any suggestions were to find an rpm for it?

dahamsta

Try up2date gtk+.

adam

davej

The library may be there under a different name or in a non-standard location, depending on how you have installed other stuff.

Try looking for the library file using locate:

updatedb
locate libgtk-1.2.so

It might be in a different location or be called something else

If you find it, you could create a symbolic link to the file and put it into /usr/lib.
You could also get it from rpmsearch but there may be other dependencies.

Why don't you use something like yum or up2datet ? it can make things a lot easier.

davej

woodyg

the file exists
its located in /usr/ib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0

would it be ok to copy that file and place it in

/usr/lib

or would that screw with the dependencies

dahamsta

No, that'll be fine. You'd be better of linking it though, save having out of whack versions.

adam

woodyg wrote:

the file exists
its located in /usr/ib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0

would it be ok to copy that file and place it in

/usr/lib

or would that screw with the dependencies

davej

Should be ok, but there may be other libraries in that directory that you might need to use.

As i said in my previous post, link it using ln -s instead of copying it.

davej

woodyg

so if i create a link by doin this

ln -s /usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 /usr/bin

it should work?

or do i have to create the file in /usr/bin
and do this

ln -s /usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 /usr/bin/libgtk-1.2.so.0

dahamsta

ln -s /usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib

woodyg

cheers for the help