On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:30 -0700, Andy Ross wrote: > [Sorry for the broken thread. I had clicked "digest" by mistake and > don't have a message in my inbox to which to reply.] > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > Andy Ross wrote: > > > Just got around to installing a 32 bit Firefox on my x86_64 fc4 test > > > system. The installer (and presumably the binary) is linked against > > > libstdc++.so.5, which doesn't exist on my machine in either > > > architecture. > > > > Why not use the .i386 firefox package? > > I haven't tried it for fear of breaking something by replacing the > default web browser with one from an incompatible architecture. But > that's really not the core issue. > > My real concern is that C++ binaries from (literally, AFAIK) every > other linux distribution will not run on FC4. In FC3, which also > shipped libstdc++.so.6 by default, there was a compatibility package > (installed by default) that provided the older library, but that > doesn't seem to be available any more. > > Andy yum search compat-libstdc yum install compat-libstdc++-33 -- John (J5) Palmieri Associate Software Engineer Desktop Group Red Hat, Inc. Blog: http://martianrock.com