hp dat software dosn't find libstdc++.so.5

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 18:34 +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:16, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> > On 7/6/06, nigel henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:44, Antonello PAPA wrote:
> > > I had that problem on FC5. There are 2 packages I installed using
> > > synaptic. compat-libstdc++-296
> > > compat-libstdc++-33
> > > I don't know which was responsible for adding the .so.5 version, but now
> > > have in /usr/lib quite a few earlier versions of libstdc++
> >
> > it's compat-libstdc++-33
> > see my previous mail from the thread for the reference
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Vivek
> Apologies Vivek. I did not go to the thread. I knew that I'd had the same 
> problem, and at the time just installed both packages. Thanks for identifying 
> which one provides libstdc++-so.5

You don't really need to know which package provides a particular shared
library since you can do:

# yum install libstdc++-so.5

and yum will figure out the right package to use (as long as it's
available in the configured repos of course).

Paul.