Fedora 7

[Mauriat M]

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