Looking for (compat-) libstdc++.so.5

Andy Ross andy at plausible.org
Tue Jun 7 19:30:26 UTC 2005


[Sorry for the broken thread.  I had clicked "digest" by mistake and
 don't have a message in my inbox to which to reply.]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > Just got around to installing a 32 bit Firefox on my x86_64 fc4 test
> > system.  The installer (and presumably the binary) is linked against
> > libstdc++.so.5, which doesn't exist on my machine in either
> > architecture.
>
> Why not use the .i386 firefox package?

I haven't tried it for fear of breaking something by replacing the
default web browser with one from an incompatible architecture.  But
that's really not the core issue.

My real concern is that C++ binaries from (literally, AFAIK) every
other linux distribution will not run on FC4.  In FC3, which also
shipped libstdc++.so.6 by default, there was a compatibility package
(installed by default) that provided the older library, but that
doesn't seem to be available any more.

Andy




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