libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file - but library is installed and up-to-date

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Jake Wilson picture Jake Wilson · Sep 17, 2010 · Viewed 53.3k times · Source

My client had some developer write a small c++ command-line app to run on their Linux servers. On one of the servers (running Fedora 11), when I execute the app I get the following error:

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Obviously the first thing I did was

yum install libstdc++

But I get

Package libstdc++-4.4.1-2.fc11.x86_64 already installed and latest version

So the library already exists and is up-to-date. Usually to me these errors indicate a missing library. So where should I look next?

Answer

anon picture anon · Sep 17, 2010

rpm hence the repo knows about shared library names and what provides them. So

yum install 'libstdc++.so.5'

wiil install whatever is necessary if the repo has it.

In your case it would fetch compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-66.i586.rpm and its 32-bit deps if you don't have them already because the binary you are trying to run is apparently 32-bit

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