error while loading shared libraries:

[Paul Howarth]

Satish Balay wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>Andre Venturoti Perrotta wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, Im new to linux, and just installed Fedora Core 3.
>>>
>>>Im trying to install some programs (RealPlayer for example), and Im
>>>getting this message:
>>>
>>>error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared
>>>object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>Can anyone help me ?
>>
>>You need to install the package libstdc++
>># yum install libstdc++
> 
> 
> Actually its:
> 
> # yum install compat-libstdc++
> 
> [root at asterix ~]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> compat-libstdc++-8-3.3.4.2

You're right of course; I carelessly ran "rpm -qf 
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5" in a terminal window in which I'd ssh'ed into a 
Red Hat 9 box and thus I got the wrong package. Whoops.

Paul.