On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > ChadDavis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm installing an application, oracle's instant client actually, > > and I need to know where to put the shared libaries ( .so ). I'm > > pretty unfamiliar with development on Unix/Linux so I don't > > exactly know how things work. I suppose there's some sort of > > path variable for locating shared libariries? And I suppose > > there's some sort of convention for their location in the > > filesystem? > > Typically, "system" and "packaged" libraries go in /usr/lib, and > "user installed" libraries go in /usr/local/lib or /opt/lib. >
Other places are also possible, as long as the directory is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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