Installing Programs for Video Conference

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 7.0 Professional Edition
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Symptom

You have installed some programs (e.g. ohphone) in order to use the video conference service. However, once you start one of these programs, the following error message is displayed:

peter@balu:~ > /opt/h323/contrib/bin/ohphone
/opt/h323/contrib/bin/ohphone: error in loading shared libraries: libh323_linux_x86_r.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

Cause

The shared libraries needed for these programs have not been loaded.

Solution

Please append the missing library paths to the file /etc/ld.so.conf:

...
/opt/h323/openh323/lib
/opt/h323/pwlib/lib
and execute ldconfig in order to create the cache for the libraries.

Another possibility consists of setting the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH as "user" and inserting the library paths:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/h323/openh323/lib/:/opt/h323/pwlib/lib
You can add this command to ~/.profile

Now you can start the programs for the open H.323 standard.
See also:
o Setting Up Video Conferences

Keywords: VIDEO CONFERENCE, OPENH323, NETMEETING, INTERNET TELEPHONY, OHPHONE

Categories: Applications , Applications

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