difficult rpm problem

[Joe Smith]

jack wallen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm not sure what I installed to cause this problem but anytime I try to
> run rpm now I get this error:
> 
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> ...

You have a couple of good suggestions on fixing this; I'm more worried 
about how it happened. There's no way installing or upgrading something 
should have broken this (at least that I can think of). As long as some 
installed package, like oh, say rpm, requires this library, it should 
never be removed by rpm.

Even if you upgrade rpm itself, and the upgrade needs a new library, rpm 
is smart enough to know that the pre-requisites must be installed first, 
so you don't break the upgrade in the middle.

Linux is perfectly happy to have multiple library versions installed, so 
again. there's no reason this library should have been removed.

Did you delete something manually? Did you install or upgrade something 
using "nodeps" or "force"?

Good luck, this is a fun thing to resolve ;-)

<Joe