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

["Joost Witteveen" <joosteto@gmail.com>]

On 07/04/2008, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> "Joost Witteveen" <joosteto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  >>  > ldd /usr/bin/gmfsk
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>   $ ldd /usr/bin/gmfsk | grep libstdc
>  >>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb738e000)
>  >>
>  >>  So, since I had libstsdc++.so.6 installed, and this is what it needs,
>  >>  why would installation of libstdc++.so.5 enabled it to work?
>  >
>  > If it were to happen to me, I'd assume it was because I didn't look
>  > properly when I tried it without libcstc++.so.5 (and I'd try removing
>  > the libstdc++5 version to verify).
>  > But I won't assume you're as stupid as me, so maybe gmfsk executes
>  > another binary that depends on libstdc++.so.5. To try that, uninstall
>  > libstdc++.so.5, and run
>  > strace -f gmfsk 2> stderr-file.txt
>  > then search the stderr-file.txt for libstdc. If there is something
>  > opening libstdc++.so.5, you should see the exec() line somewhere
>  > above.
>
>
> Interesting, I couldn't remove libstdc++.so.5:
>
>  $ ls -l /usr/lib | grep libstdc++.so*
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       18 2008-04-07 06:14 libstdc++.so.5 ->
>
>             libstdc++.so.5.0.7
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   737624 2007-01-03 13:47 libstdc++.so.5.0.7
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       18 2007-04-22 09:40 libstdc++.so.6 ->
>
>             libstdc++.so.6.0.8
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   909044 2006-12-10 09:45 libstdc++.so.6.0.8
>
>  $ sudo aptitude remove libstdc++.so.5.0.7

$ dpkg -S libstdc++.so.5.0.7
libstdc++5: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7

So the package is called libstdc++5.

On my system not much depends on it, only lsb and g++-3.3 (old).