Fedora 7

[Karl Larsen]

Mauriat M wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install Thunderbird 2.0 on this Fedora 7 Linux. When I tar
>> xvfz the download package in the directory is a thunderbird. I tried to
>> start that as I do all the time on Fedora Core 4 and I get this:
>
> This is not recommended. If possible install the version of
> thunderbird supported by Fedora 7. If you have an high speed internet
> connection run:
> # su -c 'yum install thunderbird'
> (when prompted for the passed, enter your root password).
>
> If you are unable to run yum, try downloading the RPM directly:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/thunderbird-2.0.0.0-1.fc7.i386.rpm 
>
> Install:
> # su -c 'rpm -ivh thunderbird-2.0.0.0-1.fc7.i386.rpm'
>
> By doing this Thunderbird will show up in the menu's and can better
> integrate with Fedora.
>
>> isp                 libsmime3.so     mozilla-xremote-client
>> libfreebl3.chk      libsoftokn3.chk  README.txt
>> [karl at localhost thunderbird]$ ./thunderbird
>> ./thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
>> cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> [karl at localhost thunderbird]$
>>
>> It can't find libstdc++.so.5
>>
>> I tried %/usr/bin/fedora and it said no such file
>>
>>
>>
>> [karl at localhost ~]$ work/thunderbird/thunderbird
>> work/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>> directory
>> [karl at localhost ~]$
>>
>> [karl at localhost ~]$ whereis libstdc++.so.5
>> libstdc++.so: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
>> [karl at localhost ~]$
>>
>> So if Thunderbird is looking for xxx.so.5 it will not find it. Seems to
>> me I did some sim links once to fix this stupid problem
>
> This is unnecessary if you use the Fedora version. Since the version
> provided from Mozilla is compiled differently it requires a
> compatibility library: 'compat-libstdc++-33'. This can be installed
> via yum like above, or if you must, you can also download and install
> manually.
>
> -Mauriat
>
Well I got the info to yum the lib file which I did and that then 
allowed thunderbird from the Mozilla web page to work. This is in fact 
written in Fedora 7 on thunderbird that now runs.

73 Karl Larsen

PS: Thanks to you all for the fast help :-)