"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04/06/2008 08:45 PM, Haines Brown wrote: >> This a common error message, but a search on line didn't resolve it. >> >> I'm running debian etch. I installed an application, gmfsk, deb, which >> went fine. But when I go to run it, I get, as either root or user: >> >> gmfsk: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot >> open shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> The application uses libstdc++6 >= 4.1.0, but the error suggests it is >> turning instead to libstdc++.so.5. >> >> The libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 is not installed. >> > > Where did you get that copy of gmfsk from?
A couple years ago I had to compile it from source, but I now see that it is a deb package. The package is what I installed. The package description said it depended on libstdc++.so.6. However, to get it started I had to install libstdc++.so.5. > Please enter this command and show us its output: > > ldd /usr/bin/gmfsk $ ldd /usr/bin/gmfsk | grep libstdc libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb738e000) So, since I had libstsdc++.so.6 installed, and this is what it needs, why would installation of libstdc++.so.5 enabled it to work? > Also, please show us the output of this command: > > ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc* Yep, both now installed: $ ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-04-07 06:14 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 737624 2007-01-03 13:47 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-04-22 09:40 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 909044 2006-12-10 09:45 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8 The logic of the situation seems almost as if gmfsk needed _both_ versions of the libstdc++ library. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]