maybe slightly off topic

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Firstly, this is not off-topic, anything remotely linux related seems to be
fair game here.

Which distribution do you run?  Best to get a package for your distribution
if you can, since the likelyhood of a compiled binary to "just work" is not
all that high with everyone using shared libraries and all.

You might also want to send us the error messages in case fixing that turns
out to be a relatively simple job.

Geoff.