“If you’re like most Linux desktop users, there will come a day
when you will want or need a program that isn’t included or
supported by your distribution of choice. If you build the needed
app from source code, you might still not be able to run it because
of missing dependencies. But nothing is more frustrating than
fighting your way through that unsupported landscape, including
finding and building the missing libraries, only to still get an
error message like this one: ‘error while loading shared libraries:
libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory.’ That’s where ldconfig comes in, and why it pays to know
a little about what it does and how to use it…”
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