Hello,
I've made numerous attempts to get around this issue... read all similar past queries, but I'm completely new to linux so I have absolutely no idea how to interpret some of the answers
so, in the instructions (http://gazebosim.org/wiki/3.0/install), step 10, you're told to execute "gazebo", I end up with:
gazebo: error while loading shared libraries: libgazebo_common.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
during cmake, the installation path was shown as: /home/derek/gazebo_source/gazebo/build
it said to take note of this, so I did. I then came upon instructions later about installation to local directories and such,
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<install_path>/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=<install_path>/local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=<install_path>/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
I tried every variation of replacing the <install_path> with the one designated by the cmake output, but to no avail... then, at the end of the instructions, you get this:
echo '/usr/local/lib' | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gazebo.conf
sudo ldconfig
again, I don't really know what /usr/local/lib (i understand that this is where user files go, but as far as relating this to the GUI directory of /home/USER/gazebo etc) means, I tried every combination of prefixes that I could think of
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thank you
Originally posted by idhamb on Gazebo Answers with karma: 3 on 2014-05-28
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Original comments
Comment by Jose Luis Rivero on 2014-05-29:
If you have run cmake with the proper CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX pointing to /usr the libraries should end up with the libraries on /usr/lib/... and don't need to use ldconfig at all.
Comment by idhamb on 2014-05-29:
this will be a last resort if i cant find a solution for the current installation, but will definitely give it a go tonight if i cant resolve this.