Linux finding missing dependent so files
Have you ever had the issue where you try to launch an application in Linux and you’re greeted with something like “error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” Only to then find out there is no package in yum or apt-get called libaudio or anything similar that could contain the so file.
There is a command for yum which helps track down the parent package which contains the missing dependency which is: -
yum provides */libaudio.so.2
This will return something like: -
[root@castlenix ~]# yum provides */libaudio.so.2
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* base: mirrors.melbourne.co.uk
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nas-libs-1.9.2-1.el6.x86_64 : Run-time libraries for NAS
Repo : atrpms
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/lib64/libaudio.so.2
So you then need to install the NAS package, so “yum install nas” and you will then have your dependent so file.