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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