Problems installing from RPMS and BINs
 

I'm currently using Mandrake Linux LE 2005 and had tried installing Programs like Helix RealPlayer and Firefox .. First Firefox through the console from "su" and also Realplayer from the console and both gave me this error as displayed

"error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Can someone please tell me what that means.. Thank you.

That it probable can't find the standard c++ library. Maybe you have them, but they're not in where the programs expect them to be. Try searching your installation cds to see if you've installed them or find an rpm for your distribution

Hi there!

Welcome to LQ.org. Since you are using Mandrake, your very best shot installing programs is by using/configuring urpmi. Take a look here:

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

That should help you fixing dependencies. To learn how to install programs in Linux, both from binaries and source, take a look at this sticky:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

Regards!

WOW thanks but whats a urpmi?

urpmi is a Mandrake package tool made to help you installing packages. If well configured, you should be able to install rpm's simply by clicking on them, just as you do with Windows. It's graphic interface is called gurpmi. Take a look in there:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html

Thanks for the warm welcome.. and Thank you so very much for the links I just updated the links for my urpmi.. Also I removed a C++ package that contained the libs for developers Would that help or harm me?

You are most welcome :). About the libraries you've removed, it depends :). It won't harm you I guess, but if you ever need to compile something from source, you will need that library installed. I don't think any applications requires a -devel package in order to run properly though.

However, if that package is required by another package you are trying to install, (g)urpmi should take care of it anyway... hopefully :)

Stupid question.. Should I try removing the "libstdc++" package in it's entirety then restart and reinstall it? Think that might do the trick?

Very difficult question :). That's a good idea, I guess. But you would not need to restart, just reinstall it right away. You might want to wait for a second opinion on this, I'm not quite sure in this one, since I never faced that problem... sorry :(

It's ok I just don't understand why this problem is only with when I try to install firefox and Realplayer but not With Sun JAVA . Must be because of the lib dependencies. This never happened to me in Mandrake 10.1:(

For the problem with Realplayer you need to install libstdc++5.