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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.

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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 :).

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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

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