error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.16

On installing postfix from source, when running the make install command I get an error

bin/postconf: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is because MySQL library path is not in system library locations.

To fix the error edit /etc/ld.so.conf

vi /etc/ld.so.conf

Add the following line to the end of the file

/usr/lib/mysql

Now run ldconfig

ldconfig

configure: error: “mysql headers missing.”

Back to Errors