I ran into the same problem with lldb 3.8 on Ubuntu 14.04. I created symlinks to get things working right. Now I can run "lldb" and it finds lldb-server.
In /usr/bin: 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 17 15:22 /usr/bin/lldb -> /usr/lib/llvm-3.8/bin/lldb* 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 18 11:06 /usr/bin/lldb-3.8 -> ../lib/llvm-3.8/bin/lldb* 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 18 11:06 /usr/bin/lldb-3.8.0-3.8 -> ../lib/llvm-3.8/bin/lldb-3.8.0* 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 23 17:50 /usr/bin/lldb-server -> /usr/bin/lldb-server-3.8* 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 18 11:06 /usr/bin/lldb-server-3.8 -> ../lib/llvm-3.8/bin/lldb-server* -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project > -----Original Message----- > From: lldb-dev [mailto:lldb-dev-boun...@lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Pavel > Labath via lldb-dev > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 5:32 AM > To: Jeremiah <jerem...@captainkraft.com> > Cc: LLDB <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> > Subject: Re: [lldb-dev] Unable to Locate lldb-server on Ubuntu > > I think that's a question for your distro's (or ubuntu's) lldb package > maintainer. I > think they probably have some custom patches there (if they don't then they > probably need them). If I'm not mistaken vanilla lldb does not even support > multiple lldb instalations side-by-side (i.e., it will always search for > "lldb- > server", with no suffix). > > As a workaround, you may be able to get this working by setting the > LLDB_DEBUGSERVER_PATH environment variable to point to the right > executable. > > On 26 November 2017 at 06:04, Jeremiah via lldb-dev <lldb- > d...@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > On my Pop!_OS machine (which is based on Ubuntu 17.10), using any > > version of LLDB above 3.8 gives me the error "process launch failed: > > unable to locate lldb-server-x.x.x" but when version 3.8 is installed, > > it works just fine. > > > > There are various posts across the web about the same problem on > > multipler versions of Ubuntu. The most common solution presented is to > > use update-alternatives, but that did not solve the problem for me. I > > also checked my bin directories and the binaries for lldb-server are > > there for any version I install. > > _______________________________________________ > > lldb-dev mailing list > > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org > > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev