[SOLVED] RealPlayer Error: "libstdc++.so.5" problem

rm_-rf_windows · 06-06-2007, 09:21 PM

I've installed RealPlayer on Mandriva 2007 Free (aka "2007.0") using the .rpm download (rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm) from their site. It installed very quickly, appears in the menu, but when I try to launch it, it doesn't open up. When I try from the command line, I get:

Code:

# realplay
/usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared libraries: 
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I did lots of Googling, and tried to find and install libstdc++.so.5 and many variants of it using 'urpmi', the Mandriva installation tool: No such library available. I did a fuzzy search:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# urpmq --fuzzy libstdc
libstdc++2.10
libstdc++2.10-devel
libstdc++5
libstdc++5-devel
libstdc++5-static-devel
libstdc++6
libstdc++6-devel
libstdc++6-static-devel
[root@localhost ~]#

...but don't know enough about libraries, dependencies, etc. and what I'm doing in general to install any of the above.

Does anybody have a solution to this problem, and if so, could you give me fairly clear instructions as to what needs to be done? I'm not completely new at all of this stuff, but I'm no expert either.

Many thanks.

mjmwired · 06-07-2007, 08:33 AM

I don't have Mandrake experience, however this is identical to a problem seen in Fedora. Realplayer is built with GCC3.x and Mandrake probably uses GCC4.x. So in this case will need a compatibility library. In Fedora this is called 'compat-libstdc++-33'. I do not know its name in Mandrake, however I am sure installing that library should fix your problem.

The following is from fedora:

Code:

# ldd /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin | grep libstdc++.so.5
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x00112000)
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61

rm_-rf_windows · 06-07-2007, 09:58 AM

Thanks for your reply, mjmwired.

I fixed it!

Strange thing though... When I did:

Code:

# urpmq libstdc++.so.5

I got nothing.

When I did:

Code:

# urpmi libstdc++.so.5

I got a prompt to install a different file with a warning (actually, I'm not sure, read on...). I answered yes, and, ta-tah!, it worked!

It didn't install libstdc++.co.5, it installed something else, but it works nevertheless. Unfortunately, I closed the terminal window, so I can't give you any additional information. Sorry about that. Actually, I'm not sure what it installed exactly, but the message I got before choosing 'y' contained some other information. Did it install several libraries, the one in question as well as one of which had a warning attached to it?

Now when I do:

Code:

$ ldd /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin

I do get libstdc++.so.5. The line reads:

Code:

libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb78b7000)

Don't know what all of this means, other than the fact that RealPlayer is up and working. If anyone cares to enlighten me on the subject, I'm all ears. I hope this information is helpful to others having the same or similar problems.

mjmwired · 06-07-2007, 10:20 AM

What is the output of
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5

I think mandrake and fedora support the same RPM options.

reddazz · 06-07-2007, 01:28 PM

On Mandriva the package is called libstdc++5 but on Redhat/Fedora based distros, the package is called compat-libstdc++-33.

rm_-rf_windows · 06-07-2007, 03:06 PM

Code:

[linux@localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
libstdc++5-3.3.6-3mdk
[linux@localhost ~]$