Installation borked on Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

[melito]

Using ruby installed from ubuntu repo's if that matters:

mel@melito:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]

Followed link grammar install to a 't' and received the following error when attempting to run 'instal.rb'

Testing...
0 patterns given on the command line:
ext/linkparser_ext.so: liblink-grammar.so.4: cannot open shared object file: 
  No such file or directory - ext/linkparser_ext.so (LoadError)
        from ./lib/linkparser.rb:27
        from ./tests/parseoptions.tests.rb:23:in `require'
        from ./tests/parseoptions.tests.rb:23
        from ./test.rb:76:in `require'
        from ./test.rb:76
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:39:in `find'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `catch'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `find'
        from ./test.rb:64
        from ./install.rb:178:in `require'
        from ./install.rb:178

Tried this on both dual core 64bit and 32bit systems (AMD & Intel respectively)

ldconfig -p | grep grammar returns nothing.

Really wanna use this and not perl :(

[deveiant]

Replying to melito:

"ldconfig -p | grep grammar" returns nothing.

It sounds like the directory the linkgrammar library is installed in isn't in your linker's search path. That's typically set in a file that's somewhere like /etc/ld.so.conf, but may be something different depending on your distribution. I also believe that you can add a directory at runtime using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ruby install.rb