Memcached will not start

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I have this in my /usr/local/:

libevent-1.4.so.2 memcached

When I do this, it will not start:
./memcached -d -u root -m 3900 -p 11211
./memcached: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Best Answer

While I'm sure there is a distribution-native package of memcached for your release available: You need to inform the dynamic linker of the location of shared libraries.

To do so drop your libevent into one of the paths configured in /etc/ld.so.conf (Prefer /usr/local/lib!) while making sure that you don't overwrite an existing version. If you did that, run ldconfig, and verify your library is known to the runtime linker by running ldconfig -p | grep libevent. After that, drop your memcached into /usr/local/bin/ and try running it again.

If that fails, do a ldd /usr/local/bin/memcached and update your question with the results.

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