[CentOS] Centos 6.5 install, missing libraries: where did I go wrong?

[Tony Molloy]

On Saturday 15 August 2015 06:59:36 Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I had a CentOS 6.5 CD for a clean install, and I did a desktop
>  install. Then I did a yum update to bring it up to 6.7. So far, so
>  good.
> 
> I run a bunch of scientific programs that use C++ compilers and
>  libraries. But, the programs were failing becaause in /usr/lib,
>  the libraries simply weren't there. The directory was fairly
>  sparsely populated with about 10 directories of libraries for
>  specific programs. But otherwise, things that are in /usr/lib on a
>  Centos 5 server, such as:
> 
> libkate.so.1.2.1
> libkdb5.a
> libkdb5.so
> libkdb5.so.4
> 
> are indeed there. These are just 4 library examples. I assume I did
> something wrong in the installation to keep the lib*.so.* files
>  from installing into /usr/lib. What do I need to do next time to
>  keep that from happening? Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Gilbert
> 

Assuming this was a 64bit install the libraries are in /usr/lib64 not 
/usr/lib.

Tony
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