The other day I came across a linux command that let me see where a program is expecting to find its libraries. It is very useful to solve library dependency problems for not so popular or proprietary software. I used ldd, it was very informative, but missed one crucial piece of information for me:
ldd -v ./my_executable
gave good information for libraries that my_executable can link to.
But for those it can not link/find, ldd only gave information like:
<a_library_name.so.version> => not found
What I want is, instead of "not found", I want to see
not found at /path/to/<a_library_name.so.version>.
Probably you need the strace command
Take a look here http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/11/strace-examples/