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Error While Loading Shared Libraries, Cannot Open Shared Object File

February 22, 2013 by Bob Plankers

In the “I wish the Internet had an actual correct answer” category comes a question from a Windows colleague trying to build software on Linux. He asks “I’m trying to do some web performance testing and I compiled weighttp and the libev libraries, which worked fine, but when I try to run the program it gives me the following error.” weighttp: error while loading shared libraries: libev.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory “I checked /usr/local/lib and the files are there. Do you have a suggestion?” Ah yes, a classic problem when building software. The problem here is that libev installed itself into /usr/local/lib: $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libev* -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 435770 Feb 22 15:20 …

Install the nano Editor on the VMware vMA 5

January 21, 2012 by Bob Plankers

The VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a handy appliance for interacting with your environment via the Linux command line. I use it a lot, and I’m starting to get more of my team to use it. The problem is that it only ships with the vi text editor, which, described politely, is sort of arcane. Being a UNIX guy I’m used to it, but for others that just want to edit a file it’s overkill. For those situations I like nano, a simple open source editor. To install it on the vMA issue the command: sudo zypper install nano If you’re prompted for a password use the one you set for vi-admin (or whoever you’re logged into the vMA …