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I have a Rails app that broke, and when I tried to start it, the error is livemysqlclient.iso. We cannot open shared object file, no such file or directory. How can I fix this?The error message "livemysqlclient.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" means that your Rails app is trying to load a shared library file for MySQL (namely livemysqlclient.so) that it can't find. This file is typically needed when using gems like mysql2 that provide a bridge between Ruby and MySQL.

Here are some steps to resolve this issue:

1. Check if you have MySQL installed: You can verify this by running mysql --version in the terminal. If MySQL is not installed, you'll need to install it. For Ubuntu, the command is sudo apt-get install mysql-server.

2. Install the MySQL development libraries: The mysql2 gem requires the MySQL development libraries to interface with MySQL. On Ubuntu, you can install them with sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev. On other distributions, the package might have a different name.

3. Reinstall the mysql2 gem: First, remove the existing gem by running gem uninstall mysql2. Then, reinstall it with gem install mysql2. This will ensure the gem can find the newly installed libraries.

4. Bundle Install: Ensure to run bundle install to make sure all gem dependencies in your Rails app are satisfied.

5. Restart your Rails server: Finally, restart your Rails server. The error should be resolved now.

If the issue persists after these steps, it could be a problem with the library paths. In that case, you may need to add the directory containing libmysqlclient.so to the library path. On Linux, you can set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include this directory.

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