Re: ROOT lib dir

Since you pointed me to this document, I read it again and noticed that I neglected to update the ld directory cache. After I did, it now works.

Thank you, I should have checked more thouroughly, sorry.

Stephan Zimmer wrote:
> Hi Cedric,
> what Ubuntu are you using? As for my installation, from Ubuntu 9.04 the
> installation steps described on
> http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/installing-root-source are just
> fine... The installation at a independent location actually works better
> as I can have different Root-Versions at a time. Are you sure that you
> meet all the requirements called by ./configure?
> Cheers, Stephan
>
> On 3/29/2010 9:13 PM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:

>> Just a quick question I hope someone knows a simple answer too:
>>
>> I had ROOT installed from the Ubuntu/Universe repos (defaults to
>> /usr/bin) and installed it from source with --prefix /usr just so it
>> would overwrite the old stuff accordingly.
>>
>> As promised in ./configure it did put it's SOs into /usr/lib/root and
>> now I have to direct ld-linux to there everytime I want to run it
>> because it otherwise throws errors. I think I could just reconfigure and
>> remake everything with --libdir but I didn't want to change the default
>> value unless I'm sure of what I'm doing. Should I specify --libdir or is
>> there a more recommented way to make it start without trouble while the
>> libs are in their default place?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>