Looking for (compat-) libstdc++.so.5

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:30 -0700, Andy Ross wrote:
> [Sorry for the broken thread.  I had clicked "digest" by mistake and
>  don't have a message in my inbox to which to reply.]
> 
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Andy Ross wrote:
> > > Just got around to installing a 32 bit Firefox on my x86_64 fc4 test
> > > system.  The installer (and presumably the binary) is linked against
> > > libstdc++.so.5, which doesn't exist on my machine in either
> > > architecture.
> >
> > Why not use the .i386 firefox package?
> 
> I haven't tried it for fear of breaking something by replacing the
> default web browser with one from an incompatible architecture.  But
> that's really not the core issue.
> 
> My real concern is that C++ binaries from (literally, AFAIK) every
> other linux distribution will not run on FC4.  In FC3, which also
> shipped libstdc++.so.6 by default, there was a compatibility package
> (installed by default) that provided the older library, but that
> doesn't seem to be available any more.
> 
> Andy

yum search compat-libstdc

yum install compat-libstdc++-33

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