ld.so.conf(5)

🌸 NAME 🌸

ld.so.conf — the ld.so configuration file, aka the group chat where your library directories all hang out 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/etc/ld.so.conf

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, picture this: this file is literally just a list of directories. One per line. That's it. That's the whole vibe 🎀 And those directories are the places that get searched for libraries, iykyk.

Who reads it? ldconfig(8) parses this file, and the results get stored in /etc/ld.so.cache. So like, the conf is the raw tea and the cache is the glow-up ✨

🦋 Directives 🦋

The syntax is lowkey giving options: a line is allowed to start with the keyword include, and then right after it comes a glob(7) pattern 🌈

Any files that match that pattern get processed as if their contents were, like, physically dropped in at that exact point in the file. Not me manifesting files into existence 💫

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/ld.so.conf

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Example config file, slay:

/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ld.so(8), ldconfig(8)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this icon of a manpage came to you from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-08-23 🫶 go forth and configure your libraries, no cap 💜