proxychains LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded

Using proxychains to do apt-get update in ubuntu 12.04.2

sudo proxychains apt-get update

gives following error

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libproxychains.so.3' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

How can I avoid this error?

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4 Answers

You must change

export LD_PRELOAD=libproxychains.so.3

to

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libproxychains.so.3

in /usr/bin/proxychains

or use find /usr/lib/ -name libproxychains.so.3 -print to get the right file path.

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Although the error goes away when setting

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libproxychains.so.3

in /usr/bin/proxychains there is no such file in that location on Ubuntu. the link resides in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ on a 64bit system and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ (i think) on a 32bit system. The link points to the file libproxychains.so.3.0.0 in the same directory. The change should be

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.3

if on 64bit

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.3

if on 32bit Ubuntu and derivatives.

In my case,

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.3

did not work. I also added this line to my .bashrc and refreshed it by source ~/.bashrc

Solution:You need to add/edit it to proxychains by:

sudo gedit /usr/bin/proxychains

if on 32bit Ubuntu and derivatives, replace x86_64-linux-gnu with i386-linux-gnu

You can just add

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.3

in .bashrc instead of run proxychains bash in terminal.

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