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Something very weird is happening. I just installed FC4. I have libstdc++.so.6 installed, and when I try to run the firefox installer it says libstdc++.so.5 not found. I believe that it is an older version... Should I downgrade, or there is a better solution?

Fedora core comes with firefox in a default installation in 4.

if you don't have it just a "yum install firefox" will get it(or maybe it is yum install mozilla-firefox)

Tried with yum it says it dosen't find anything.

Yes, firefox comes installed by default, but I want to update it.

type in as root

updatedb

locate libstdc++.so.6


then post the output of that.

There:


[root@localhost dre]# updatedb
[root@localhost dre]# locate libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.4

ok. now type as root

ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5

then type ldconfig and then try to install firefox

ldconfig says command not found.

I tried the installer again.
This is what I got before: ./firefox-installer-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `GLIBCPP_3.2' not found (required by ./firefox-installer-bin)
This is what I get now: ./firefox-installer-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `CXXABI_1.2' not found (required by ./firefox-installer-bin)

You need to install compat-libstdc++-33.

Thanks! It works!!:D

Hi, i've the same problem with my mdk...
I can't find any rpm with compat-libstdc++-33
Where did you find it ?

On Mandrake, try installing the libstdc++ packages.