> Sorry, this question may be a little bit dumb: how do I add more
> directories to the path that Linux searching for library? E.g. when I
> run wine, the system complains that it cannot find "libwine.so.1"
> while that file sits comfortably in "/usr/local/lib". Is there a way
> to do it other than putting symbolic links in "/usr/lib"?
See the man page for ld.so(8) for information about the dynamic linker.
In particular, you're probably going to want to modify the
LD_AOUT_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
Shawn