Missing Linux Libraries

We often get a support call from clients who get an error message about missing libraries on their Linux box.
Typical errors may look like the following:

../tools/COMINSTALL: ../tools/unzip: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

The solution for this problem is to use the yum command to find the missing libraries and install them. Here is the procedure..

yum search glibc
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================================================ N/S Matched: glibc 
glibc-common.x86_64 : Common binaries and locale data for glibc
glibc.i686 : The GNU libc libraries
glibc.x86_64 : The GNU libc libraries
.....

yum install glibc.i686

Installed:
  glibc.i686 0:2.12-1.209.el6_9.2                                                                                   

Dependency Installed:
  nss-softokn-freebl.i686 0:3.14.3-23.3.el6_8                                                                       

Complete!

Other Common Missing Libraries

When running some our tools on Linux, clients may experience missing library errors.
Here are a few typical errors and solutions using the yum command.

../bin/mmask: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

yum search curses
yum install ncurses-libs.i686

hagai@asmsc45 examples]$ ../bin/mmask -h
../bin/mmask: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

yum search libterm
yum install compat-libtermcap.i686

../bin/mmask -h
../bin/mmask: error while loading shared libraries: libg2c.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

yum search libf2c
yum install compat-libf2c-34.i686