Yeah, sorry, sudo takes your user password usually. If you're not allowed to sudo, you must be able to su (with the root password), else how could you get anything done? Or is this not a machine you have root on?

$ su
(password)
# apt-get install libstdc++5
# exit
$ exit

Note that password is CaSe sensitive so make sure you don't have the capslock key on or something. And for laptops make sure you're not in some Fn mode that puts the keypad on your qwerty layout. Unless that was the mode you were in when you typed the original password. Not trying to confuse the matter, but sometimes stuff happens. And debian isn't always good about grabbing dependencies. sun's java requires libstdc++5 as well, even though libstdc++6 is probably installed.

su requires the user to be in the wheel group on some distros. I'm not sure if that's a current requirement with current debian. You might be able to login as root at boot time as a fallback. Not advisable if you boot into a gui mode. I tend to avoid that by not installing a display manager (kdm, gdm, wdm, xdm, ...), or uninstalling them, or reconfiguring, or disabling. Many means to an end. Otherwise an xterm does good enough.

In order to get root's environment use a '- with the su cmd thus

su -
<root passwd >

you may need that to ensure the right cmds are available

Nice thanks seems to have worked , thanks to all that are contributing I really do appreciate it . Heres the output

Now were talking , man that was cool ! Excuse my excitement but very little has worked and that was exciting for me !

Now to figure out where they have to go the files linked by the author of the linux readme.I examined the /lib directory and it has two files named the same as the files supplied but different sized files , which means that if I were to drop them in the /lib directory they would overwrite the existing files which resulted in a negative way the first time I tried it . Heres the exert from the readme
Tried to do some research on libraries and "dynamic linker" but its way beyond my comprehension as of yet , once again big thanks to all that are contributing this is awesome !

thanks
Wrath

At this point I would just try and run the server again and see if it gives you library errors. If it does it may just be safer to modify the library search path instead.

Same library error
Now with little knowledge i have ill try to explain what i think is happening . with the apt-get which worked it retrieved and installed the wrong files as I believe that the files i need and are posted with url in the linux readme are custom created lib files that some gentleman created specifically for this binary "cod2_lnxded". I have downloaded the files provided but cannot place them where they need to be as I dont understand and cant figure where they are to go . There are five files that are provided . Problem 1 is I would have to do it through the terminal as I dont have write permission for any of the root dir's . Even then I would have to know where they need to be in order , and these are the readme authors words At a lost here as i dont understand exactly where these go and how to get them there
Dynamic linker will see it ???

thanks
Wrath

You are getting the error actually because they used an older version of gcc's library for the program. Gcc version is now 4.x and they used gcc 3.x.

You could try just copying the files into the /usr/local/lib directory.

write access denied
 

denied write access , so i belive i have to do it in the terminal with su permissions . I am looking about on how to do that , guessing that i would have to use the mv command but not sure about the file names and how to input the path to where they would have to go .

thanks again
Wrath

Is the directory name capitalised differently to how you typed it? File and directory names are case sensitive in Linux, so "Music" is not the same as "music" or "MUSIC", for example.

As for tutorials, I'm not sure. Maybe have a look at this. There's a lot of info there on various things.

Yes you would need to become the super user to be able to copy the files into that directory thus the su command. You could either just copy them with the cp command or move them with the mv command.