In which directory does the libpthread library reside on a Linux system ?
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Hi - your question refers to a generic "Linux system" - this is a bit too vague to answer clearly. Could you please specify which OS/arch you are referring to ? – Bruce Becker Jan 16 '17 at 15:26
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There are a number of ways to find this out.
Simply type find / -name 'libpthread.so' -print to find the file named libpthread.so on your system.
You can check the library locations your dynamic linker ld checks in for libraries, which are listed in /etc/ld.so.conf.
Also, if you are running a debian-based distro, or have dpkg installed, you can use dpkg -S libpthread, which will give you the packages that contain files with the name libpthread and where those files are installed. Distros with RPM support should have a similar feature. Hope this helps!
Sean Kelleher
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You can try the following command = locate libpthread.so
it gave the following output when I tried :
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so
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In Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Oracle Linux OS 6.8, you can run the following command:
ldconfig -p | grep pthread.so
Sample output:
libpthread.so.0 (libc6,x86-64, OS ABI: Linux 2.6.32) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
libgpgme-pthread.so.11 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpgme-pthread.so.11
Jonathan L
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The pthreads run time library usually lives in /lib, while the development library usually lives in /usr/lib. This can vary by distribution, but this is at least the location on Debian and Ubuntu and I doubt other mainstream distributions use anything else.
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In Ubuntu it is located in usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/.
At least, it is the path on my system!
Hamed
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Another simple way:
ldd /bin/tar | grep pthread
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f803cdd4000)
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