[SOLVED] Some confusions about shared libs when I installed "beyond compare" .

[cmpltrtok]

Hello, everyone. I am very new to linux. I encountered some questions during the time with a x86_64 centos 6.2. I can not help myself to stop posting something to break my confusions.
Recently I installed a so called "beyond compare for linux" to my centos 6.2 x86_64. The readme of this software said if the linux distro is 32bit all will be OK and if the linux distro is 64bit then some additional libs should be installed firstly and their version sould be 32bit.
I installed those listed libs by yum. Some succeed, some failed. Then I try the install. Then I run the /usr/bin/bcompare. It prompted as below:

[root test bin]# ./bcompare
Some Shared Libraries were not found
 linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x0026f000)
 libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x003a9000)
 libqtc.so.1 => /usr/lib/beyondcompare/libqtc.so.1 (0x003bd000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00110000)
 librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00249000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00f98000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00252000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0091f000)
 libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/beyondcompare/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xf7083000)
 libXext.so.6 => not found
 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00afc000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00e90000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00270000)
 libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x0028e000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x008fd000)
 libXrender.so.1 => not found
 libXrandr.so.2 => not found
 libXcursor.so.1 => not found
 libXinerama.so.1 => not found
 libXft.so.2 => not found
 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x002ae000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00346000)
 libXext.so.6 => not found
 libSM.so.6 => not found
 libICE.so.6 => not found
 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00257000)
 libexpat.so.1 => /lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x0037b000)

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Above is the prompt. I remember that I have successfully run "yum install libz*i686". But I wonder why the second line of the prompt list is still prompt that libz.so.1 is not found?
Anyone can break my confusion? And better condition, anyone can fix the beyond compare for me? Thanks!

[atreyu]

hi,

that seems like a headache to me. why not try meld? if it is in your repos, you can do:

yum install meld

[cmpltrtok]

hi,

that seems like a headache to me. why not try meld? if it is in your repos, you can do:

yum install meld

Thanks for advise. I get meld from that web page. By the way, in my machine(centos 6.2 x86_64), the result of running your code is below:

[root test peter]# yum install meld
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kabi, presto,
              : refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.yun-idc.com
 * extras: mirrors.yun-idc.com
 * updates: mirrors.yun-idc.com
Setting up Install Process
No package meld available.
Error: Nothing to do

But, anyway, I got much more used to beyond compare than this meld. I still miss beyond compare.

[atreyu]

By the way, in my machine(centos 6.2 x86_64), the result of running your code is below:

you can install it by installing the EPEL repo. it is a huge 3rd party software repository for CentOS that is run by the Red Hat folks.

But, anyway, I got much more used to beyond compare than this meld. I still miss beyond compare.

yeah, i hear ya. change is hard. you can try to satisfy those missing libs, i guess.

 libXext.so.6 => not found
 libXrender.so.1 => not found
 libXrandr.so.2 => not found
 libXcursor.so.1 => not found
 libXinerama.so.1 => not found
 libXft.so.2 => not found
 libXext.so.6 => not found
 libSM.so.6 => not found
 libICE.so.6 => not found

try this:

yum install libXext libXrender libXrender libXrandr libXcursor libXinerama libXft libSM libICE

if that works, then try to run your prog again.

[cmpltrtok]

try this:

yum install libXext libXrender libXrender libXrandr libXcursor libXinerama libXft libSM libICE

I tried this, but it does not work.
I then tried below, it works!!

yum install*i686 libXext*i686 libXrender*i686 libXrender*i686 libXrandr*i686 libXcursor*i686 libXinerama*i686 libXft libSM*i686 libICE*i686

Thank you, atreyu!
And my original confusion was solved too! In that mass prompts, only libaries labeled "not found" is lacking and needed further installing.

[atreyu]

ah, glad you figured that out!

i'll go ahead and mark this as Solved for you. Note that you can do this at any time using the Thread Tools link at the top of the page.