Using the Berkeley DB

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 23:32 +0200, Jan wrote:
>> But when I try to open the programm, using ./dbApp, following error
>> occurs:
>>
>> ./dbApp: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-4.8.so:
>> cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> What does that mean?
>
> The .so shared-object couldn't be found. I've seen that a lot of
> programs like this are designed to be run from the standard places
> (like /usr/bin/). It could be that it's trying to look for the shared
> library via relative paths instead of absolute, so it's not finding it.
>
> More likely, in my mind, is that the .so object doesn't exist. I believe
> you could do a "whereis libdb_cxx-4.8.so" in the terminal to confirm
> this. If it's not there, then you may need to install another package,
> or compile it yourself.

My guess is that it exists, but is not found (not in the standard
path) - you could put a symlink into /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib and it
should pick it up.

Chris