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neato: error while loading shared libraries: libgvc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Cause

Operating system: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx

IDE: Qt Creator 1.3.1

Project type: Qt4 Console Application

Selected required modules: QtCore

Compiler: G++ 4.4.1

Boost version: 1.42.0

Additional libraries: jpeg-8a from the Independent JPEG Group

The following source code was used:


#include <cstdlib>



int main()

{

  std::system("neato out.dot");

}

Solution

I had messed up the graphviz libraries. After removing them all, and reinstalling them again, everything worked again. I used the following shell commands:


sudo apt-get remove graphviz

sudo apt-get remove graphviz-dev

sudo apt-get remove graphviz-doc

sudo apt-get install graphviz

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(C++) libgvc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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