installing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

[Judith Retief <JudithR@inet.co.za>]

I have to get a backup for one of our production boxes installed. Someone
else had set up a basic debian installation on the new box, I just have to
get our own binaries working on it, most of which link against
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3. I assume this is the implementation of the C++
libraries, and as most of our code is C++ I'm not surprised to see it as a
dependency. On the existing machine, this lives in /lib:
	/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0
but the new box didn't have this lib.

on the existing box
	apt-cache search libstdc++
returns a lot of packages, most promising are
	libstdc++3 libstdc++5 libstdc++6
with their dbg/dev/doc variants.

I've tried 
	apt-get install libstdc++6 
on the new box, but the lib is still missing. Just in case (used to windows
environment :) I tried rebooting the box, now it doesn't want to come up
again.

What am I missing here? Any background info on the history of the library
versions would also be appreciated.