Gannin Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I decided to try out Fedora Core 4 in a virtual vmware session. When it came time to install Firefox, I went to the browser's website and downloaded the latest version. When I tried to run it, it complained that it needed libstdc++.so.5. On Mandriva, that's no problem. Just a little urpmi libstdc++5 and you're good to go. Now perhaps I'm overlooking something, but I've been playing with yum for quite some time, and I simply can't find the package that will give me libstdc++.so.5. Any ideas would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 # yum provides libstdc++.so.5 More than likly it will be some "compat-libstdc++" package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I tried using the provides command, and it came back with nothing. However, the compat package is indeed the one that is needed. But when I did my various searches for libstdc++*, it never came up. Is there another way I can use yum to find it, just for future reference? Perhaps using two asterisks, such as *libstdc++*? I realize I could install apt and synaptic and go about it that way, but I'd still like to learn the distro's main tools. Thank you :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Thats odd, mine works but I'm on rawhide but could have sworn in fc4 the samething provides libstdc++.so.5 Other than yum provides you can do things like yum list *\libstdc\* which means anything before and after, so like compat-libstdc++-33 Would pop up since something is before libstdc and something is after. yum list | grep libstdc Anything with libstdc before/after/middle were ever. yum list libstdc\* You guessed it, anything after, I'll let you figure out how to do before :) This is also good to read through http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/ http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/sn-searching-packages.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Thank you very much. I appreciate it :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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