libfreenect.so.0.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[hellocatfood]

I have compiled libfreenect on Ubuntu 13.10. When I run freenect-glview I am given the following error:

freenect-glview: error while loading shared libraries: libfreenect.so.0.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[piedar]

$ cd build
$ ldd bin/freenect-glview | grep libfreenect.so
libfreenect.so.0.4 => /home/benn/code/libfreenect-upstream/build/lib/libfreenect.so.0.4 (0x00007fc0e7108000)
$ ls -hg lib/ | grep libfreenect.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 users   18 Apr 13 21:30 libfreenect.so -> libfreenect.so.0.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 users   20 Apr 13 21:30 libfreenect.so.0.4 -> libfreenect.so.0.4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 users  54K Apr 13 21:30 libfreenect.so.0.4.1

You ought to see similar results.

[hellocatfood]

Yes, I do get similar results. I can run freenect-glview from the building directory but if I do "make install" it appears that the lib folder isn't copied over and isn't found, hence reporting the bug

[piedar]

This could be because Ubuntu decided to use /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu instead of /usr/lib64. I don't know why they did this; probably just to annoy me...

[hellocatfood]

Possibly! Could this be patched or instructions for Ubuntu users added to the README file?

[piedar]

I bet it would work to change all instances of "${PROJECT_LIBRARY_INSTALL_DIR}" to lib and let platform symlinks work out where the libs actually go.

[roboflank]

sudo ldconfig -v works for me.