Fedora Core is careless

[Karl Larsen]

Chris Jones wrote:
> On Friday 12 May 2006 8:30 pm, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> 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!
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if "yum install libstdc++.so.5" is really supposed to work (??) 
> but 
>
> # yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
>
> does and tells me you need compat-libstdc++-33
>
> compat-libstdc++-33.i386                 3.2.3-55.fc5           core
> Matched from:
> libstdc++.so.5
>
> Chris
>
>   
>>     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
>>     
>
>   
    Paul I must have mis-spelled  the lib because I did it again and it 
worked. I am now still not happy on FC4 but at least Thunderbird came up!

Karl