Fedora Core is careless

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri May 12 18:49:00 UTC 2006


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




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