Date: 2012jun11 OS: Linux Q. ldconfig: Says /lib/lib<something> is not a symbolic link What does that mean? A. As far as I can tell, it means that you have a duplicate copy of the named lib that is not a symbolic link. eg:

/lib/libmylib.4

and

/lib/libmylib.4.BACKUP

Its common to have lib's linked. Eg:

/lib/libmylib.4 -> /lib/mylib4.2

so ldconfig doesn't complain about that.