RHEL3 missing library

[Imed Chihi]

On Friday 02 Mar 2007 17:00, redhat-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> From: Andrew Bacchi <bacchi at rpi.edu>
> Subject: Re: RHEL3 missing library
>
> not the rpm, but the tar.gz from Mozilla.  It complained about not
> finding libstdc++.so.5.

Compatibility libraries are in compat-*. Try installing compat-libstdc++*, 
Anaconda does prompt for this in the package selection phase.

> mark wrote:
> > Dag Wieers wrote:
> >> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, mark wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> The fact that on a RHEL3 he sees the GCC_4.2.0 require?ment probably
> >> means that he has been mixing packages build for RHEL4 (or another
> >> distribution with gcc 4) on his RHEL3.

If the applications are complaining about the missing GCC_4.2.0 symbol, then 
it's almost sure that you are using a non-Red Hat core system library like a 
custom libstdc++, libgcc and such. Verify the installation using rpm -Va.

 -Imed