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

[Ron Schnatzmeyer]

Thank you.
/usr/local/lib was in there. After I ran 'sudo ldconfig' it will start.

However:
I have to run 'sudo gnucash' for it to start. Is this normal?

Thanks,
Ron


On 09/05/2015 10:46 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 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
>
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