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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
