Install application on Centos 7

Hussein2010 · 01-04-2020, 05:00 AM

Hi, I'm trying to install an tar.bz2 on Centos 7, first I installed Development tools, then I extracted the application using tar -xjvf tarballname.tar.bz2, now I have two files one filename without extension and the other is filename.debug, I could not access both and ./configure is not possible. i tried ./filename it gives "error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0:cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and I tried the second file ./filename.debug and it gave me "cannot execute binary file".

I could not also use ./configure because it is not found in the directory.

Please help guys and note that I'm a beginner.

berndbausch · 01-04-2020, 06:25 AM

Are you sure this tarball contains software to be built and installed? Where did you get it from, and what is is named?

filename is executable, but it requires a shared library you don't have on your system. You can try to install it:

Code:

# yum whatprovides libpng12.so.0
....
libpng12-1.2.50-10.el7.x86_64 : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
# yum install libpng12

then try again.

yum whatprovides finds the packages that provides a certain file. yum install installs it.

sevendogsbsd · 01-04-2020, 07:25 AM

OP: have you tried to see if the software is in the CentOS repositories? That way you can just run

Code:

yum install <name of software>

. Linux isn't Windows where you have to go out and download everything you want to install manually.