firefox installation problem

superxav · 12-31-2004, 03:37 AM

Hi all,

I had to reinstall Mandrake 10.1 Community and now as a result cannot install firefox...here is the message:

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

does it ring a bell to anyone?

I have not installed any other software to troubleshoot properly but...I could if you need me to!

Thanks again!

masand · 12-31-2004, 03:50 AM

just run this in mandrake

urpmi libstdc++.so.5

and it will install the required libraries from the CDs

regards

superxav · 12-31-2004, 03:52 AM

thanks masand for your quick reply!

is this an important library? only for firefox?

masand · 12-31-2004, 03:57 AM

i have seen it being required in some other applications also
not remember in which

regards

superxav · 12-31-2004, 04:20 AM

hi again masand,

it does not work because its not an rpm...

it should be like this no?
urpmi libstdc++.so.5.rpm

masand · 12-31-2004, 04:25 AM

if u want to install from rpm then u need to use
rpm -ivh lib...rpm

otherwise
urpmi libstd...

should work
what errors do u get

regards

__J · 12-31-2004, 05:17 PM

libstdc++.so.5 comes with gcc-3.3.x - You probably have gcc-3.4.x installed which comes with libstdc++.so.6 or have no gcc installed at all. If you have gcc-3.4 installed you will have to compile firefox from source. NOTE: if you downgrade gcc-3.4 to gcc-3.3 everything else that depends on libstdc++.so.5 will break. let me know if you need a .mozconfig file (the file that builds mozilla/firefox).

xviddivxoggmp3 · 02-16-2005, 02:30 PM

were do you find a .mozconfig file?
how would i create a custom one?