error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

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.

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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM