How do I open an .so file in Linux?

If you want to open a shared-library file, you would open it like any other binary file — with a hex-editor (also called a binary-editor). There are several hex-editors in the standard repositories such as GHex () or Bless ().

What is an SO file in Linux?

Files with the “. so” extension are dynamically linked shared object libraries. These are often referred to more simply as shared objects, shared libraries, or shared object libraries. Shared object libraries are dynamically loaded at run time.