> The febootstrap output indicates that libcap2 has not been included in > the appliance, which is ... a bug! > > Try this patch: > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/24c4178749817639ecf9ad61f... > > I guess that on Fedora libcap must be pulled in as an implicit dependency. The patch worked to complete the test of 'quickcheck' with "TEST FINISHED OK". Thank you! The 'make check' results have 1 failed test but it looks like that's from not having lvm2 configured. make quickcheck output: http://pastebin.com/qkjjAz6C make check output: http://pastebin.com/FRmLaeE3 I still don't understand why after installing it on the system the libraries aren't linked up properly. $ guestfish --version guestfish: error while loading shared libraries: libguestfs.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ libguestfs-test-tool libguestfs-test-tool: error while loading shared libraries: libguestfs.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory $ ldd `which libguestfs-test-tool` linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff325ff000) libguestfs.so.0 => not found libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f12522a0000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f125267e000) $ sudo find / -name 'libguestfs.so*' | xargs ls -l /usr/local/lib/libguestfs.so -> libguestfs.so.0.391.0 /usr/local/lib/libguestfs.so.0 -> libguestfs.so.0.391.0 /usr/local/lib/libguestfs.so.0.391.0 For now I'll stick in symbolic links to "patch" the system. And look at your suggestions regarding a static appliance.