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linux LD_LIBRARY_PATH handlinganholt02/21/2009 - 14:40

This one is likely to trip up users that are temporarily testing new graphics drivers, resulting in poor performance.  The .deb installed a wrapper script which did:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs

which means that any existing user LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets ignored.  Just changing that to

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

means your libs still get precedence, but the user's path preferences over the system defaults also get respected.