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)