On 12/10/05, Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 11:46 -0600, Alex White wrote: > > Well libstdc++ exists in /usr/lib/ on my system 4 U2 it's: > > Okay, I wasn't sure which one I'd symlink off of. I appreciate the > explanation. > > > Now, if you know that your application is erroring off with > > something similar to "unable to locate libstdc++.so.2" Just as an > > example, then you could do something like: ln -s > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc.so.2 > > I need to look at the error log. It might be looking in an entirely > different location, maybe? I mean either it's hard-coded to look for a > certain version or to look somewhere else (assuming it's possible that > RHEL 2.x ut libstdc somewhere else). > > > If that doesn't work then just delete your symlink and all will be > > right with the world. Make sure not to delete the actual library > > though, I've done somethin' stupid like that before lol > > :-) > > Thanks. > Instead of wrecking systems with random symlinks trying to meet compatible versions of things, why not do "yum provides filename" and see if it is available to you. yum list "compat*" yeilds several packages that might be what you're looking for. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center