Linux Mint: "No such file or directory" -- WTF ??

[Recursion]

5. You could do that, but for starters just type it when you run the program

eg,

/bin/bash$ LD_PRELOAD_PATH=/home/eppur/downloads/app ./the_program

(In bash and sh,

NAME=value command

runs command with variable $NAME set to value, without changing the persistent environment. Note that you don't use $NAME=value but NAME=value.)

(This is from memory but I think LD_PRELOAD_PATH needs to be an absolute path rather than a relative one.)

Once you get it working, you can add that env variable to .profile, or just move the libraries to a trusted directory (and run ldconfig).

As a final thought, you can use ldd(1) to find out what libraries the program needs, and where it thinks those libraries live.