Ed Greshko wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
> Steve Siegfried wrote:
>
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> I installed Fedora 7 and tried to install Thunderbird Email
>>> client but it will not run on Fedora 7. At least I didn't get it to.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Your comment isn't actually all that helpful in determining why it
>> doesn't work. Was the install an upgrade from an earlier version of FC
>> or did you do an initial install? Did any warning messages appear while
>> you were installing the software? Did you follow the directions that
>> popped up on the screen the first time you invoked Thunderbird? When you
>> kick off Thunderbird, does it dump core, just quit, catch fire... what?
>>
>> Just for giggles, try invoking "/usr/bin/thunderbird" from an Xterm
and
>> then check the Xterm for error messages after it dies... and then post
>> 'em here if you want help in fixing the problem.
>>
>> -S
>>
>> Computers run on smoke. I know this because when the smoke escapes,
>> the box
>> quits working.
>>
>>
>>
> 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:
>
> isp libsmime3.so mozilla-xremote-client
> libfreebl3.chk libsoftokn3.chk README.txt
> [karl@localhost thunderbird]$ ./thunderbird
> ./thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
> cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> [karl@localhost thunderbird]$
>
> It can't find libstdc++.so.5
>
> I tried %/usr/bin/fedora and it said no such file
>
>
>
> [karl@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@localhost ~]$
>
> [karl@localhost ~]$ whereis libstdc++.so.5
> libstdc++.so: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> [karl@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
>
No, just "yum install compat-libstdc++-33"
Thank you I will try that but not sure what it does. Looks weird. But
must have been left out on Fedora 7.