[Wylug-help] Problem installing Firefox on Fedora 4

[Andy Macdonald]

Can any of you wonderful people help?

Firefox 1.5 won't run after downloading and extracting firefox-1.5.tar.gz in /usr/local as superuser (su'd from ordinary user).

(Still as superuser - I've done "cp -r /root/.mozilla /home/{user}" and "chown -R {user}:users .mozilla", which should enable {user} to run the app as well).

Error message:
"/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

According to http://www.joewein.de/sw/swnotes002.htm, you should create links so that library files in /usr/local/lib also appear in /usr/lib, like this
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
But this doesn't work - we have no files in /usr/local/lib.
 
There exists /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 which is a link to libstdc++.so.6.0.4 in the same folder but no .5 file (creating a link called libstdc++.so.5 to the 6.0.4 doesn't work!).

According to daemonguy at ozzu.com - 
yum install compat-libstdc++
should fix it, but yum does a load of stuff and then says
"No Match for argument: compat-libstdc++
Nothing to do"

What am I doing wrong?

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Andy Macdonald
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