[Wylug-help] Problem installing Firefox on Fedora 4

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Andy Macdonald wrote:

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

[prefect at foo ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4

> 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?

That advice sounds nearly correct, but probably for fc3 that 4.  There's now
compat libraries for 296 as well as 33.  So:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33 should get it.

jh

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