Debian Cannot Find `ldconfig` about logoslinuxinstaller HOT 6 CLOSED

Maybe adding sudo/doas is the right solution, but is it also worth considering using python's glob module in a for loop to search for a library in LD_LIBRARY_PATH? We'd have to be sure to add /lib and /usr/lib to the for-loop, because I don't know if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is necessarily set.

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Maybe adding sudo/doas is the right solution, but is it also worth considering using python's glob module in a for loop to search for a library in LD_LIBRARY_PATH? We'd have to be sure to add /lib and /usr/lib to the for-loop, because I don't know if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is necessarily set.

That could help us to be further OS independent, such as for BSD and macOS.

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I found an even better (and much faster) solution using pathlib.Path.rglob. glob.glob was taking forever. Here's a one-line sample of the proof-of-concept, just looking in /usr/lib:

$ python3 -c 'from pathlib import Path; print([p for p in Path("/usr/lib").rglob("libfuse*")][0])'
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfuse.so.2.9.9

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The above commit 7aa1671 [still] works on my ubuntu system, but it needs tested on at least debian before I'm satisfied that it solves the problem. Instead of elevating privileges for the ldconfig command, it searches the lib folders directly ($LD_LIBRARY_PATH, /usr/lib, /lib). We would maybe need to add more folder paths for macOS, whose file structure I'm not familiar with.

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a test build with this change is now available at https://github.com/FaithLife-Community/test-builds/releases/download/v4.0.0alpha-issue10-20231229/LogosLinuxInstaller

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Telegram/Matrix user "godfollower4ever" confirmed this fix in a group conversation thread

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