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Problem installing divx4linux

Hi,

I am quiet new to linux and I hadsome trouble installing the MPlayer (and some codecs) on my Fedora Core 2 Test 2 system. By the way MPlayer Version is "MPlayer-1.0pre4".

The install script of divx4linux copies the files but when calling ldconfig the following messages occur:

Code:

[root@localhost divx4linux-20030428]# ./install.sh

/sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so not found.

/sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/local/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.0 not found.

/sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so not found.

/sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1 not found.

/sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 not found.

This is a little strange because those files exist!

Code:

[root@localhost divx4linux-20030428]# ls /usr/local/lib

libdha.so.0.1    libmp3lame.a  libmp3lame.so.0.0.0  mplayer

libdivxdecore.so  libmp3lame.la  libxvidcore.a        netscape

libdivxencore.so  libmp3lame.so  libxvidcore.so.4.0

I compiled the MPlayer anyway (configure, make, make install). When startig it it tells me:

Code:

[root@localhost merlin]# mplayer

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: 

libdivxdecore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: 

No such file or directory

Any hints are very apreciated!

This is just a guess, but are the files in /usr/local/lib actually files or links? A quick ls -l should tell you.

Hi Hangdog,

"ls" tells me:

Code:

[merlin@localhost merlin]$ ls -l /usr/local/lib

insgesamt 3176

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 224316 29. Apr 20:52 libdha.so.0.1

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 402584 30. Apr 10:50 libdivxdecore.so

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 865336 30. Apr 10:50 libdivxencore.so

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 372578 29. Apr 19:33 libmp3lame.a

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    804 29. Apr 19:33 libmp3lame.la

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 29. Apr 19:33 libmp3lame.so -> libmp3lame.so.0.0. 0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 337127 29. Apr 19:33 libmp3lame.so.0.0.0

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 502688 29. Apr 21:42 libxvidcore.a

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 450510 29. Apr 21:42 libxvidcore.so.4.0

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 29. Apr 20:57 mplayer

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 29. Apr 19:49 netscape

Seems to me that there is only one link (to an existig file), right? As I said I am really quiet new to linux...

Hm. OK, how are you logged in when you run install.sh? Do you log in as root or do you log in as a normal user and then use su to be root? The reason I'm asking is if you use su, there can sometimes be a difference in behavior between su and su -

I usually use su - since I think that read's root's PATH and su doesn't.

The other thing to check is that the /usr/local/lib is in your /etc/ld.so.conf file.