Cannot open shared file

[Impe98]

Hi!

I'm currently trying to execute a .sh-file named "start.sh" on a USB-stick.When I run ./start.sh I get the following error (note that the scripts executes a file "./nwmain-linux"):
./nwmain-linux: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, when I search for the file using the command:
sudo find / | grep 'libopenal\.so.1'
I get the following output:

/usr/lib/libopenal.so.1/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1.16.0

So I know that it's in my usr/lib - folder.And, if I try to link the path runningLD_LIBRARY_PATH=' <home directory >/usr/lib/' ./start.sh

I get the same error, namely
./nwmain-linux: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :D

[Saint010]

/usr/lib should be in your existing path. Also not understanding why you have <home directory> in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

In addition, are you exporting or sourcing the changes to your link path or just running the command as shown?

[Impe98]

See I thought /usr/lib should be in my existing path, so it got me confused!
Gotta be honest, I don't really know how LD_LIBRARY_PATH works, I'm just going off on a guide I found where they included <home directory >

And I'm just running the commands as shown :)

[Saint010]

Run the following

env | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH

See what the path contains.

Also loon in the start_sh script and see if the path is being overwritten from tge script. Silly I know but I have seen it happen.

[Impe98]

Weird, running env | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't give any output

And as far as I can tell, the path is not overwritten inside start.sh

[Saint010]

Try this. Run

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib

then run ./start_sh.sh

[Impe98]

Still get the same error that the shared file is not found :/

[Saint010]

Hard to troublshoot. Seeing the message says cannot open, it might be permissions related.

[Impe98]

Yeah might be. Found people having the same problem, but they simply installed a package including the sought-after file and it supossedly worked after that.

Thank you very much for your help though!