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problem in gmp installation

I installed gmp-5.0.2. Finally after running the below error was appeared:

"error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

what 's the problem. and who can I fix it?

is it related to install in vmware linux OS?

How did you install it? From an official binary package for your distribution or by compiling from source? In the latter case, you have to inform the system were the library are placed. You can either run (as root):

Code:

ldconfig /path/to/gmp-5.0.2/lib

or from a user's point of view, add the following to your .bashrc (or any other configuration file if you run a shell different from /bin/bash):

Code:

if [[ -z $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]]

then

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/gmp-5.0.2/lib

else

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/gmp-5.0.2/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

fi

this will update (or create) the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable that lists all the directories where the executables can find the shared objects.

thnx
that's great :hattip: