after reinstallation of Freeradius on Ubuntu 20.04, cannot start service

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 17, 2020, at 5:55 PM, Gareth Tomlinson <hashemite2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Removed / purged freeradius after discovering daloradius didn't do what I
> needed, reinstalled and now cannot start the service.
> The issue SEEMS to be a missing shared library:
> ...
> freeradius -CX
> freeradius: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-server.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  You've purged libraries which are needed by the server.  Don't do that.

  Remove EVERYTHING related to FreeRADIUS.  Then install new packages.  I suggest using http://packages.networkradius.com.  Those packages are up to date, unlike the ones given out by many OS distributions.

  Alan DeKok.