libexpat could not be found by linux system
c++, linux, shared-libraries
Solution
Fixed by manually downloading and installing libexpat package form here http://expat.sourceforge.net/ and look for downloading page. It should take you to sourceforge page and select stable package
Problem
I am developing with vddk library for ubuntu 12.10 i386. I constantly get following error: ``` Cannot open library: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. ``` When I run `apt-file search libexpat.so` it shows me following ``` lib64expat1: /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1 lib64expat1: /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1.6.0 lib64expat1-dev: /usr/lib64/libexpat.so libexpat1: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 libexpat1: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.6.0 libexpat1-dev: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so ``` I already tried to create a symlink ``` sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0 ``` but it did not work. Strange thing: ``` ls -l `locate libexpat.so` ls: cannot access /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.6.0: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libexpat.so.0: No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 141320 Aug 20 09:21 /home/ubuntu/vddk/lib64/libexpat.so.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141320 Feb 3 16:45 /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disk-lib/vmware-vix-disk-lib/lib64/libexpat.so.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141320 Aug 20 09:21 /usr/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/lib64/libexpat.so.0 ```