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Multiple versions of glib

I have an older version of glib that all applications are compiled against and use. I need to install a new application that requires a newer version of glib to compile and run. I installed the new ...
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How to discover and list static libraries used by a software in Linux?

Background: We have a third-party vendor software for our Linux distribution that we are currently testing on lubuntu. We have the installation files and an install.sh shell script that installs the ...
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Installing Octave-4.0.0 on CentOS yields QtOpenGL linking error

I am in the process of trying to install Octave-4.0.0 on a CentOS 6 cluster. Octave has 20+ dependencies, and it is unclear which versions of each dependency to use. Since yum only has Octave-3.4.3, ...
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Difference between apt-get compilation and manual compilation from source

I am trying to replace manually a library for freeradius. On a one hand I installed freeradius with an apt-get install. There was a library "libfoo-2.0.4.so" (let's call it the lib(apt)). On the other ...
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Ubuntu, updated boost from 1.46 to 1.52, linker asks for 1.46

I was having some trouble compiling with a piece of software using boost (wt, http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt). I knew (from testing with another machine) that updating from 1.46 would solve my problem. I ...
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How can I specify the path to libpcap when configuring/making/installing?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.1 and am trying to get packet capturing working for my Bluetooth dongle using hcidump. From what I've read, libpcap must be compiled to enable Bluetooth sniffing and given ...
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How can I recompile a program so that it does not require setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in order to run?

On a solaris server where I don't have admin, I am compiling various software and installing in $HOME/usr, and it's mostly working. However, some of the programs that I compile in this way depend on ...
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Ubuntu libraries problem

I already asked this question on SO, but it seems like the problem is probably with linker. So, the question is: I'm trying to build a project, using $ make, but it fails: host SharedLib: ...
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