PyCharm cannot find library

Question

I am using PyCharm 5 to run a Python 2.7 (Anaconda) script in Ubuntu. My script imports a module with import tensorflow, but this causes the error ImportError: libcudart.so.7.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. So, it seems that the library libcudart.so.7.0 is needed by this module, but it cannot be found.

Now, I have seen that this library is on my machine in /usr/local/cuda-7.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib. So, in PyCharm, I went to Settings->Project Interpreters->Interpreter Paths. This had a list of paths, such as /home/karnivaurus/Libraries/Anaconda/python2.7. I then added to this list, the path mentioned above which contains the required library.

However, this did not fix the problem. I still get an error telling me that libcudart.so.7.0 cannot be found. If I run my script from the shell though (python myfile.py), then it runs fine.

How can I tell PyCharm where to find this library?

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I have noticed that if I have print sys.path in my script, the paths it prints out are entirely different to those in Settings->Project Interpreters->Interpreter Paths... should they be the same?

Answer 1

I came across this problem just recently using a remote debugger, however I believe it's still the same solution. I just added the following to the Environment Variables section in the Run/Debug Configuration options found in Run > Edit Configurations... dialog: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH