Error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I recently ran an upgrade on my Fedora core box. All the library files got upgraded . Unfortunately, VLC player which used to run normal stopped working .

The error thrown was ‘vlc:error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.56: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory’.

What I discovered is that the file libx264.so.56 had updated to libx264.so.60. Hence, I created a soft link ln -s libx264.so.60 libx264.so.56 . This solved the issue. And VLC runs file now.

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  1. L!feIsBinary

    i haven’t tried it for libraries .. but for programs i use update-alternatives .
    like python on my system has two option , to link to python2.3 or python2.5

    u can choose anyone using
    update-alternatives –config python
    or u can forcefully install a link.

    but this may be for debian based systems..:)

    July 11, 2008 12:22 pm | #1
  2. Chester

    HapiBlogging to you my friend! Have a nice day!

    July 30, 2008 3:09 pm | #2

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