RE: learning to find packages
> >
> > I try to start an application and it says that it can't load
> > libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2.
>
> You should not have to deal with this problem.
I keep hearing that. ;-) Unfortunately, it doesn't match my experiences
over the last week :-(
> What application are you
> using? Was it installed from a .deb? If so, and you used apt-get, the
> necessary libraries would have been installed for you. If you installed
> the package "manually" using dpkg, then dpkg should have informed you
> that you were missing a specific package.
>
This is AOL instant messanger for Linux (my company uses it since we're
distributed).
www.aol.com/aim
I downloaded the .deb package and installed with dpkg. dpkg did not give
any errors.
> > I look in /usr/lib and I see that I have:
> >
> > libstdc++3-lib6.1-2-2.10.0.so
> > libstdc++3-lib6.2-2-2.10.0.so
> >
> > I tried to make a link from what the app wanted to what I have
> and that only
> > produced a seg fault.
>
> Search for file names at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. There
> are actually two search engines on that page. The first allows you to
> search based on package name, while the second (the one you need) allows
> you to search based on file name.
I tried to enter libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2, and smaller pieces all the way
down to libstdc++ and didn't get any hits.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that you are trying to install a non-Debian
> binary package?
No, it's a .deb (see above).
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