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Added note for adaptation on Linux Mint #49

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On Linux Mint Cinamon, installing Tcl and Tk development libraries set them to the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and not just /usr/lib.
So that users may encounter enror of the ld linker saying that the libraries could not be found.

So creating soft links can solve the issue.

On Linux Mint Cinamon, installing Tcl and Tk development libraries set them to the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and not just /usr/lib. 
So that users may encounter enror of the ld linker saying that the libraries could not be found.

So creating soft links can solve the issue.
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Thank you for the amendments but this sounds like a linker configuration problem and symlinking libraries is not the best way of fixing it. A more correct way would be to tell ld where the libraries are. On Ubuntu, this is defined inside the files of the /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ directory. Installing the libraries should have placed them in one of the locations listed in those files.

Is this a problem on all Linux Mint installations or just yours locally?

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loloof64 commented Apr 17, 2019

Thank you for your quick reply,

I don't know if this a problem related to Linux Mint, as it is my first attempt with TkD on Linux. Eventually, I can create a VirtualBox of Ubuntu and test whether the problem is the same.

I also agree that my method is not the ideal one : as I am not very used to linking configuration, what should be done instead in order to tell ld where to find library ?

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