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