libstdc++2.8 wherefor art thou?

[Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

What happened to libstdc++2.8 ? I have local files installed that depend on
this library. Is there a solution?

Package libstdc++2.8 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package libstdc++2.8 has no installation candidate


bash-2.05b$ ldd /usr/local/RealPlayerG2/realplay
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40026000)
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40029000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40070000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40127000)
	libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40134000)
	libstdc++.so.2.8 => not found
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40148000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4016a000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40284000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4028c000)


[PS: yes, I know "wherefore art thou" is actually not correct in the subject]

-- 
greg