“No such file or directory” error when executing a binary

Question

I was installing a binary Linux application on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64. The app shipped with an old version of gzip (1.2.4), that was compiled for a much older kernel:

Answer 1

Old question, but hopefully this'll help someone else.

In my case I was using a toolchain on Ubuntu 12.04 that was built on Ubuntu 10.04 (requires GCC 4.1 to build). As most of the libraries have moved to multiarch dirs, it couldn't find ld.so. So, make a symlink for it.

Check required path:

$ readelf -a arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc | grep interpreter:
      [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]

Create symlink:

$ sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

If you're on 32bit, it'll be i386-linux-gnu and not x86_64-linux-gnu.