Error while loading shared libraries

[Robert Marcano]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 14:26, Charlene wrote:
> First a little background...
> I first tried installing some Oracle software on an older version of Red 
> Hat.  And in the process of doing that my husband did something that 
> required a reinstall.  Instead he installed fedora.  I like it a lot better.
> 
> But when I tried to install the software on fedora I got this error:
> 
> error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2: cannot 
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need to install the compatibility libraries located on the package
named "compat-libstdc++".

Using up2date execute:
	up2date compat-libstdc++
or using yum:
	yum install compat-libstdc++

> 
> Now I'm a unix user not admin, and I sort of understand this, and I sort 
> of found solutions, but they didn't go into enough detail. I don't know 
> where to find the right file to load using rpm.  Also I've never used 
> rpm either.
> 
> Charlene