compat-libstdc++-33

[Kam Leo]

On 5/2/06, Mauriat Miranda <mirandam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 11:50 -0700, Nader Mirzaee wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > accroding to the Stanton Finley Notes installation of RealPlayer10GOLD
> > > needs compat-libstdc++-33
> >
> > It's wrong:
>
> Are you sure it is wrong?
>
> > [mpeters at atlantis ~]$ rpm -q RealPlayer
> > RealPlayer-10.0.7.785-20060201
> > [mpeters at atlantis ~]$ rpm --test -e compat-libstdc++-33
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libstdc++.so.5 is needed by (installed)
> > AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386
> >         libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by (installed)
> > AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386
> >         libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by (installed)
> > AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386
> > [mpeters at atlantis ~]$
> >
> > compat-libstdc++-33 is needed for Adobe Reader. It use to be needed for
> > Real Player, but the more recent versions of Real Player have not been
> > linked against it.
>
> I cannot confirm your claim. Looking at:
> https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/ -- officially there
> is 10.0.6 and 10.0.7 versions of Realplayer.
>
> I previously had the 10.0.6 version:
>
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ rpm -q RealPlayer
> RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ rpm --test -e compat-libstdc++-33
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         compat-libstdc++-33 = 3.2.3 is needed by (installed)
> compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-55.fc5.i386
>
> However Realplayer does not show up.
>
> So I removed compat-libstdc++-33 and 10.0.6 fails to launch.
>
> Then I tried 10.0.7 without compat-libstdc++-33:
>
> [mirandam at charon ~]# rpm -q RealPlayer
> RealPlayer-10.0.7.785-20060201
> [mirandam at charon ~]# rpm -q compat-libstdc++-33
> package compat-libstdc++-33 is not installed
> [mirandam at charon ~]# realplay
> /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ ldd /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin | grep libstdc
>         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x00125000)
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Where by chance did you get your Realplayer as I assume I am comparing
> against the same version as you?
>
> -Mauriat
>

RPM only reports what is provided in a package's .spec file. It would
appear that Real omitted a dependency.