FC5 xorg and dual head
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sun May 14 14:55:13 UTC 2006
> The failure in FC4 is that they didn't install libstdc++.so.5 which
> is required for Thunderbird and Firefox. I found you can yum install
> that lib and both will work fine on FC4. They got it right on FC5.
There is no failure on FC's part.
FC is a bleeding edge distro. This has ALWAYS been stated and if you are
unaware of this, you should have read the release notes.
FC5 uses by default a NEWER version of libstdc++. If you install (through
the correct update/installation channels, i.e. yum/pup/pirut) some
application (such as thunderbird/firefox) which requires an older version of
libstdc++, then yum/pup/pirut will(or perhaps should) resolve the
dependencies for you and install the older compat libraries that are need.
If, as I suspect in your case, you disregard the release notes and install
things differently (such as using mozilla's own installation tools or you
wish to install a package for which there is no rpm and you are forced to
build from source), then you have to resolve these dependencies yourself.
This is obvious and you cannot complain. If you fail to do so the fault is
yours not FC's
Chris
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