Hi all,
Trying to install Sunbird for Thunderbird I get the message "error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5".
I know there's a libstdc++5 package available, however last time I got a message like this and I tried to just download the right package it broke synaptic and apt-get among other things and I ended up having to reinstall the system (couldn't find a solution to the problem anywhere!).

Should it be ok to install the libstdc++5 package via synaptic, or is there another solution? I've heard people talking about creating a symbolic link which actually points at the so.6 file, but to be honest I don't know how to do this or if it would work!

~Shiv

I've never had a problem installing anything under synaptic. Did you get it from somewhere else and install it by some other method? This is a pretty standard package to have to add for Mozilla stuff.

Also, could you update your profile to show your distro? Otherwise, please state your distro when you have problems.

I had a problem today also. I was running the automatic updates as prompted in gnome.

The updates are for:
libglib2.0-0
libmozjsld
libpng12-0
libpurble0
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686
linux-headers-2.6.26.1-common
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
lunux-libc-dev
pidgin
pigin-data
xulrunner-1.9
xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support

It will not complete the install due to:
E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic-mkdir (2 No such file or directory).

Now when I try to open a root terminal it will not open and I get the same message when trying to open synaptic.

Any suggetions.

Usually (by pure logic)
# apt-get install libstdc++5
hould be enough.

I might be wrong, but isn't libstdc++.so.5 an older release? In that case you should go for compatlibs. That way you can keep your current stdlibc, and also use the older ones for applications that depend on it.

Linux Archive

There's nothing that prevents you from having multiple versions of libstdc.

After rebooting a 2nd time all went back to normal.

These are updates that Gnome updater are alerting me to but come with a warning that the updates can not be authenticated.

Don't these updates come straight from the Debian repository?

This should cure the prob.

Go to System>Administration>Users and Groups.

Click on the 'root' user and click properties to the right-hand side of the dialog box. Choose the Advanced tab and change /home/root in 'Home Directory' to /root. If it is /root, delete only the word root

IMPORTANT: Every time Users and Groups is accessed even if no changes are made, it will be necessary to repeat the above exercise otherwise the same Synaptic error will reappear.