cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Published by Daniel on 12th February 2009

Filed Under how to fix the error...

I’ve gotten this error after i’ve installed ImageMagick (from source) and RMagick (using gem) on my Debian system

libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory – /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.8.0/lib/RMagick2.so

To get rid of this error i executed

ldconfig /usr/local/lib

Thread Tags: debian, imagemagick, installation, rmagick

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#1

Posted by gdelfino on April 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Thank you!
#2

Posted by IringB on April 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Thanks for the tip!
#3

Posted by dira on June 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 am

Thanks, very useful tip!
#4

Posted by sv3nrg on June 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am

Very, very useful!
#5

Posted by Lanza on June 14th, 2009 at 9:13 pm

You may want to add “–prefix=/usr” to “./configure” command, so that ImageMagick get installed in Debian default dirs.
#6

Posted by rc on August 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

You saved my life!!!!! Thank you!!!!
#7

Posted by ping on August 31st, 2009 at 7:47 am

thanks, really useful!
#8

Posted by George on September 18th, 2009 at 12:37 am

Thanks. This helped me as well.
#9

Posted by Travis on October 24th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

Awesome, thanks!

But, in my case ldconfig wasn’t in my path, so I had to run:

/sbin/ldconfig /usr/local/lib
#10

Posted by Ze on November 17th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

thank you so, so much!!!
I was stuck in there.
#11

Posted by Nick on January 13th, 2010 at 4:13 am

Oh thank god! This is not the first error I’ve encountered installing image magick, but it was the easiest to fix thanks to you!
#12

Posted by Eso on February 17th, 2010 at 10:16 pm

Thanks that helped a lot. Though I had to use:
sudo /sbin/ldconfig /usr/local/imagemagick/lib

because I set a custom prefix when installing imagemagick.

When i tried without sudo I had the following error:-
/sbin/ldconfig: Can’t create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied

Thanks
#13

Posted by GS on May 20th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Exact solution to the issue. Thanks!

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cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory