[mockealm]

I have some problems with foamX

root@pc1:~# FoamX
Starting NameServer with inet:pc1:1234 ...
nsd: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I have tried the following with no suckses.

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s libelf.so.1 libelf.so.0

I run Slackware

[fra76]

If you're running a 64bit operating system, you can try:
# cd /usr/lib64
# ln -s libelf.so.1 libelf.so.0

[mockealm]

Iam running 32bit

[msrinath80]

What does the output of the following command tell you?

[username@hostname pwd]$ find / -name libelf* -print

[mockealm]

thanks, it loiks like this

root@pc1:~# find / -name libelf* -print
/root/libelf.so.0
root@pc1:~#

[mockealm]

or

root@pc1:~# [username@hostname pwd]$ find / -name libelf* -print
-bash: [username@hostname: command not found
root@pc1:~#

[msrinath80]

1. You are certainly new to the *nix world. I understand that. Nothing wrong, we've all been there.

2. First advice: Stop working as root user. The root user is much more powerful than the standard windows Administrator. So please stop using it. Create a normal user using the appropriate GUI tool.

3. Copying libelf.so.0 to the /root direcotory is not going to help in any way.

4. OpenFOAM will look for libelf.so.0 in the system lib directory (usually /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 depending on the architecture). So if you want to give a quick check, copy the libelf.so.0 file to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 and see if that helps.