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 (??) 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. 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! > > Karl -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr Chris R Jones work : +44 (0)1223 337324 | | HEP Group (rm 882) fax : +44 (0)1223 353920 | | Cavendish Laboratory, home : +44 (0)1223 510711 | | Madingley Road, mobile : +44 (0)7723 327477 | | Cambridge, CB3 0HE email : jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
