Tuesday, August 28, 2018
OpenCV shared libraries error
OpenCV shared libraries error
If you installed opencv on your linux machine and are able to compile opencv programs but cannot run them and are receiving the following error :
error while loading shared libraries: libcxcore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This means that the program is not able to locate the shared libraries it needs to execute. To sort this out you to have set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the path of your opencv lib directory. This directory should be located in your opencv installation directory(if you installed opencv using the tar rather than using your linux distribution repositories). You can do this by the following command (assuming you have installed opencv in your user directory in a folder named "opencv" :
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/{username}
