From: Warren Young Date: December 9 2004 6:30am Subject: Re: Problem while linking a C++ program: part 2 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/3782 Message-Id: <41B7F112.9000707@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mysql Plusplus wrote: > ./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlpp.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Either you did not install MySQL++, or you installed it in a directory not seen by your dynamic linker. On Linux, check that the directory libmysqlpp.so* is in is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. If it isn't add it, and run ldconfig. All of this as root.