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Where does Ubuntu look for shared libraries?

When I run a process that links to a shared library at runtime (linked when the process starts, not linked later with dlload()), where does it look for that shared library (.so) file other than ...
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How to correctly deal with lib-symlinks in modern Ubuntu versions?

Let's assume that I have some problems with dynamic linking. I may have some locally built (or manually copied) library which overrides library from APT. The library is not placed to /usr/local/lib, ...
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What are .dlls doing in Linux programs?

Games that were made with Unity3D for Linux contains .dll files in their data folder GameDataFolder/Managed. Which is weird because I thought that Linux uses .so files instead of .dll files. (The ...
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Installing Oracle database 12c on Ubuntu 14.04

Is there anyone out there that got Oracle 12c working on Ubuntu 14.04? I tried following this tutorial (which is written for installing Oracle 12c on Ubuntu 12.04): But in linking faze I encountered ...
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Relocation error involving libgnutls.so.30, error code (127) after last updates [closed]

After the last update this happened: /usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file ...
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How do I run a game with a .x86 extension

Can anyone help me run the game cs portable, I used to play this all the time on windows?? it's free and the download link is here, the download link is in the bottom of his profile description. The ...
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How do I deal with "undefined reference to dlopen" errors while compiling and using OpenFST on Ubuntu?

Trying to compile and use OpenFST on Ubuntu 13.10 leads to link errors like "undefined references to dlopen". How does one fix this? Searching online suggests including -ldl in the gcc command line, ...
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msp430/bin/ld: cannot find -lc

I installed successfully msp430-gcc 4.7.0 compiler. The compiler at the final stage of the linking process it shows me the following error for Ubuntu 12.04. msp430-gcc -mmcu=msp430f1611 -Wl,-Map=...
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