Re: [OpenBabel-scripting] Python shared object file error

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Sam Aarons wrote:

> I finally got everything in the bindings to work
> correctly, but when i'm running my python application
> (which uses openbabel bindings) i get this error
> message.
...
> ImportError: libopenbabel.so.1: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory

By default, Open Babel compiles and installs into /usr/local (i.e., / 
usr/local/libopenbabel.so)

Depending on your machine, this may not be in a normal library search  
path. If you're running Linux (looks like it), you'll need to edit / 
etc/ld.so.conf or the LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html

Cheers,
-Geoff