On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19:18, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > What file is the "default" LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in? If there is no > default place, where is a good global place to set it, for all users, > and with what syntax? Fedora doesn't need LD_LIBRARY_PATH on the default install. It is purely used for users to override the system wide settings. The system wide settings are in /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ you'll have to run ldconfig wich then creates /etc/ld.so.cache which is used by the linker... Peter.