[LAU] Installation issues with zita on Ubuntu 14.0

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:53:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 05:45:12 +0000, Benny Alexandar wrote:
>>I had faced some issues with zita installation.  
>
>Zita what?
>
>Seemingly you are talking about zita-ajbridge and zita-resampler.
>
>>While installing zita-a2j/j2a by default it installed
>>under /usr/local/lib64 folder. I need to export this path.  
>
>Strange, it should be a path to bin, not to lib.
>
>>While running zita-a2j it throwed an error saying couldn't find
>>libzita-resampler.so.1 and when checked it is named as
>>"libzita-resampler.so.1.6.0" I need to create a soft link to this lib
>>as "libzita-resampler.so.1"  
>
>There should be no need to create a link.

Oops, the Arch Linux PKGBUILDs indeed include a few link and path
fixes.

>Indeed, the right path here
>is lib. There already should be the needed links in either /usr/local
>or /usr.
>
>libzita-resampler.so -> libzita-resampler.so.1.6.0
>libzita-resampler.so.1 -> libzita-resampler.so.1.6.0
>libzita-resampler.so.1.6.0
>
>Did you run
>
>  sudo ldconfig
>
>?
>
>>Is this thr right way to install zita or an I missing something.  
>
>You missed to provide what you actually did.
>
>To avoid a local path you could build with
>
>PREFIX=/usr
>
>To "configure dynamic linker run-time bindings" you need to run
>
>  sudo ldconfig
>
>after installing a library.
>
>Btw. your PATH variable should include /usr/local/bin.

FWIW on Ubuntu you could run

  sudo checkinstall

instead of

  sudo makeinstall

When installing a package (e.g. build with checkinstall), there's no
need to run ldconfig.