gnucash won't start libgnc-gnome.so.0 No such file

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 5, 2015, at 8:23 PM, Ron Schnatzmeyer <NoSoy1 at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm making a valiant effort to get to Linux from Windows. I've set up a dual boot with Mint 17.2 and I'm trying to set up GnuCash to replace Quicken. The GnuCash version in the Mint/Ubuntu repository is 2.6.1 which is 6 releases behind so I decided to be brave and install 2.6.7 from source. Other than having to install a bunch of stuff that configure identified, everything went OK. But when I try to start the program by typing 'gnucash' as the command line I get:
> 
> ron at RCS1 ~ $ gnucash
> gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-gnome.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> This is very strange because 'libgnc-gnome.so.0' does exist in /usr/local/lib. I've tried adding /usr/local/lib to the PATH but that doesn't work.
> 
> I must have done something incorrectly but I have no idea what.
> Any thoughts on what is the problem?

Make sure that /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf and run `sudo ldconfig`.

Regards,
John Ralls