Never mind, found it!

ldd libfbclient.so showed that it depended on another library that was
missing.
After installing this library, everything worked.

Thanks for thinking along :-)

John

On 11-7-2013 10:15, John vd Waeter wrote:
> On 11-7-2013 09:44, Philippe Makowski wrote:
>> Le 10/07/13 16:13, John vd Waeter a écrit :
>>> So I tried:
>>> - get a 32 bit libfbclient.so from another 32 bit machine.
>>> - put it in /lib/i386-linux-gnu
>>> - made a reference in /etc/ld.so.conf.d
>>> - run ldconfig
>>>
>> bad idea
>>
>>> But the ibconnection in freepascal still cannot find it.
>>> Maybe this is a freepascal question... I don't know.
>>> Is it enough to get libfbclient.so from a 32 bit machine or is does it
>>> depend on more 32 bit libraries?
>> certainly more
>>
>> you should better do something like :
>>
>> sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install libfbclient2:i386
>>
>>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> Thanks for answering.
>
> That last extension (:I386) did it to get the 32 bit library. I didn't
> know about such extension.
> But still "cannot load error" while starting the program.
> Could it be it finds the 64 bit libfbclient.so first and throws the "can
> not load default Firebird clients" error?
>
>
> John
>
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