tsocks can not find libtsocks.so

[Mohammad Elmi]

When I use tsocks (fresh install from repo), it shows the following error:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libtsocks.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

I checked installed files with tsocks (dpkg -L tsocks) and noticed that libtsocks.so is installed with tsocks and the problem is that it can not be found. After some search and learning how LD_PRELOAD works and finding out that tsocks actually is just a script, I fixed this error by editing /usr/bin/tsocks and changing following line

export LD_PRELOAD="libtsocks.so"

into

export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtsocks.so"

What I did is just giving absolute path of the library.

I know that this is not the best way to fix this error (because of different versions of a so library that might exist on a system). I tried to explain my journey.