Re: Library Error

I too have had the same problem.  Admittedly I haven't had
time to read too much about the finer points of installation, or
even administration for that matter.

I simple added /usr/local/pgslq/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
that took care of it.

HTH,
-darrel

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Sokel, John wrote:

> I just installed PostgreSQL on a Linux machine and it seems to run fine.
> However, I cannot do anything to it since I get the following error message
> everytime I run any program (except initdb, that worked):
>
> psql: error in loading shared libraries: libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared
> object
>  file: No such file or directory
>
> The file does exist in the /usr/local/pgsql/lib directory, I do have
> permissions for it, and I put lib in my path, yet it still complains.  Is
> there a .conf file parameter missing somewhere?  A configure param?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> John Sokel
>