When the McAfee runtime libraries (MFErt.i686.deb) are installed, a sym link named ld-linux.so.2 is created in the /lib folder, and it is linked ld-mfert.so.2 (in the same folder), which then points to the /opt/McAfee/runtime/2.0/lib/ld-linux.so.2 file.
This changes the system link to the
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so file which informs all the installed programs where to find library files to run with.
To see the issue, you can run the following command:
ldd /path to executable/
For example, for Adobe Reader:
ldd /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
Produces an output similar to the following:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf77ce000)
libBIB.so => not found
libBIBUtils.so => not found
libACE.so => not found
libAGM.so => not found
libCoolType.so => not found
libAXE8SharedExpat.so => not found
libJP2K.so => not found
libAdobeXMP.so => not found
libpthread.so.0 => /opt/McAfee/runtime/2.0/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7777000)
libicuuc.so.36 => not found
libssl.so.0.9.8 => not found
libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => not found
libxml2.so.2 => not found
libm.so.6 => /opt/McAfee/runtime/2.0/lib/libm.so.6 (0xf7751000)
libdl.so.2 => /opt/McAfee/runtime/2.0/lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf774c000)
libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 => not found
