Need help with GVIM

reddragon3668 · 07-06-2013, 07:05 PM

I am pretty much a linux newbie; its been a while since I've loaded and ran a distro. I recently loaded Vector which is based on Slackware and I've ran across a problem that I'm not sure how to fix. The program GVIM won't run. If I try to open it via a terminal, I get the following error:

Quote:

gvim: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.6.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm kind of lost here and any help would be greatly appreciated! I did a search and found the libpython2.6.so.1.0 file here:

/opt/libreoffice3.6/program/libpython2.6.so.1.0

So at least I know the file exist. I am suppossing that I need to define a sym link of sorts but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Thanks again for any help!

Diantre · 07-06-2013, 08:22 PM

I don't use Vector, but in Slackware libpython is part of the python package, and it should be located in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. Make sure that you have python installed.

reddragon3668 · 07-06-2013, 11:11 PM

theres a 2.6 and a 2.7 version of python installed. Not sure why GVIM isn't picking it up.

Diantre · 07-07-2013, 12:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddragon3668

theres a 2.6 and a 2.7 version of python installed. Not sure why GVIM isn't picking it up.

Check that libpython is actually in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64 if your system is x86_64). For example, this is what you'd see in Slackware64 14.0:

Code:

$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libpython*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 Oct 11  2012 /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so -> libpython2.7.so.1.0
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1890224 Jul  3  2012 /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0

If the library exists, try running ldconfig as root. If it doesn't exist, perhaps reinstalling python would solve the problem.