error while loading shared libraries; cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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The program evince complains that it can't find libfreetype.so.6; however I clearly have the file and its included in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH; furthermore I have another program which uses libfreetype6 and is able to run just fine. What's going on here?
jbud@jb-pc ~> evince
evince: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
jbud@jb-pc ~> ldd /usr/bin/evince | grep freetype
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f912179d000)
jbud@jb-pc ~> file /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6: symbolic link to `libfreetype.so.6.11.1'
jbud@jb-pc ~> file /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6.11.1
/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6.11.1: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=0x21a4b8005e0c9a42af001b35fb984f4e25efc71c, not stripped
jbud@jb-pc ~> echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/:/usr/lib64/:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/local/lib/
jbud@jb-pc ~> ldd jdrive/jstuff/work/personal/noengine/client | grep freetype
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007feb5ac89000)
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