Fedora Core is careless

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 12 19:57:34 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 20:41 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Friday 12 May 2006 8:30 pm, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> > > Paul Howarth wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:12 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > >>>     On FC5 you remembered to link libstdc++.so.5 to whatever the
> > >>> version is on this version. On FC4 you forgot to do this!
> > >>>
> > >>>     And I am having hell like every time I try to make a link! I
> > >>> always go to man link and get confused and then screw up.
> > >>
> > >> Good! You shouldn't be making bogus links like this, you should be
> > >> installing the correct library in the first place.
> > >>
> > >> If you need libstdc++.so.5, try installing it:
> > >>
> > >> # yum install libstdc++.so.5
> > >>
> > >> Paul.
> > >
> > >    I had no idea yum could fix this, but for sure you should not need
> > > to fix it. I will try yum and report back. Thank you.
> > >
> > >    The only applications that don't work so far are Thunderbird and
> > > two others!
> > >
> > > Karl
> >
> >     And I tried to yum libstdc++.so.5 and it told me there was no such
> > thing!
> 
> I'm not sure if "yum install libstdc++.so.5" is really supposed to work (??) 

It is and it does:

# yum install libstdc++.so.5
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates
[1/3]
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
core
[2/3]
core                      100% |=========================| 1.3 kB
00:00
extras
[3/3]
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-55.fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 compat-libstdc++-33     i386       3.2.3-55.fc5     core
231 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 231 k
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

> but 
> 
> # yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
> 
> does and tells me you need compat-libstdc++-33
> 
> compat-libstdc++-33.i386                 3.2.3-55.fc5           core
> Matched from:
> libstdc++.so.5
> 
> Chris
> 
> >
> >     So I did make a link to libstdc++.so.6 and this does not work.

Not surprised. The files have different names for a reason.

> > So
> > what in the heck is going on? I can't imagine what I did. I loaded a new
> > workstation in FC4 and thought all would be hunky dory and still it's
> > broke!

Please copy-and-paste whatever output you get from running:
# yum install libstdc++.so.5

Paul.




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