[Freegis-list] Gdal on slackware

[J.J.Green]

Hi Tomas

> When I try to run ogr2ogr I get "ogr2ogr: error while loading shared
> libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory".
>
> I got them at:
>
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.a
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.la
> /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so

You need to tell your OS to use shared libraries
from /usr/local/lib, many do not since it might be
a security risk. On debian add the directory to
/etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig -- other unicies
may vary: check ldconfig(1)

-j
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