cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory on pcoketsphinx

[titusjoyson]

I installed as you directed and when i tried to run the sample file I got the below error how to fix this on ubuntu 15. Please reply as soon as possible.

python test.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 3, in
from pocketsphinx.pocketsphinx import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/init.py", line 37, in
from pocketsphinx import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/pocketsphinx.py", line 42, in
_pocketsphinx = swig_import_helper()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pocketsphinx/pocketsphinx.py", line 38, in swig_import_helper
_mod = imp.load_module('_pocketsphinx', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: libpocketsphinx.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[nshmyrev]

The error message tells you that the system failed to load shared library libpocketsphinx.so.3. You have to configure linker to look in /usr/local/lib to load shared libraries. You can do it with LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or with configuration file /etc/ld.so.conf

To learn more about shared libraries in Linux read

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html