problem of launching pspp in debian 9 related to libgsl

[dr soumalya ray]

friends,

i am using debian 9 (upgraded from debian 8). was able to use pspp (ire) in debian 8. however, unable to use pspp (ire) since the upgrade. whenever i am trying to launch it, it is failing with this message : "pspp: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

when i checked in synaptic, libgsl is installed.

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information about the laptop :

uname -a
Linux abhra 4.12.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.12.6-1~bpo9+1 (2017-08-27) i686 GNU/Linux

i have tried this: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Shared-Libraries.html

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is giving blank output.

i'll be very obliged if could kindly guide me in the correct direction.

regards,

abhra

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