Fedora Core is careless

[Karl Larsen]

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!

    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