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Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 [message #48009 is a reply to message #48008]

Sat, 25 March 2006 01:33

Foldy Lajos
Messages: 268
Registered: October 2001

Senior Member

Hi,

FC5 has many "compat" packages, I guess you need compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3.

regards,
lajos

On Sat, 24 Mar 2006 phaccount@nycap.rr.com wrote:

> I am starting to appriciate my Windows machine at work. I get an IDL
> CD, pop it into the drive, run the installation, point it to the
> license file, and I'm done.
>
> Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I downloaded the IDL distro, unpacked it
> and ./install-ed it (never mind that I could not do it by su -c
> ./install, because an "echo ..." statement in yesno script was causing
> trouble, so I had to login as root).
>
> Then my license file failed to impress the license manager (my platform
> is i86_re, and my license was for i86_r). However (and THANK YOU RSI),
> the license file in my account was updated to include i86_re, so I
> downloaded that, and IDL runs.
>
> But now, if I try to run an iTool, IDL complains about a missing
> "libstdc++.so.5" file. It turns out that I have "libstdc++.so.6" file.
> Assuming (foolishly?) backward compatibility tried to trick IDL, I
> created a soft link from .6 to .5.
>
> No luck, since now I get a message GLIBCPP_3.2 is not found (recquired
> by idl_xml.so).
>
> If RSI were to drop linux/unix support, I may have an inkling why.
>
> BTW, does anyone have any ideas how to proceed? My Unix programming
> skills are close to zero (thanks to tools such as IDL).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mirko
>
> PS. Oh, and why am I installing IDL on Linux? Well, as the person
> that makes the big bucks in our family, I get the crappy computer. My
> wife has a dual-core Dell, daughters a 2.4GHz gateway, and I was handed
> down an old (I am not going to admit to the processor speed) PC running
> W98 (Second Edition), not supported anymore by RSI.
>
> For my stuff, I really don't need super-fancy stuff. Heck, I did my
> PhD on a 200MHz Alpha 11 years ago, and it was mostly IDL.
>
> And now, if you excuse me, I'll go of into the sunset of irrelevance
> and go practice my guitar:-)
>
>

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		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: MP on Mon, 27 March 2006 10:50
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: Phony Account on Mon, 27 March 2006 07:49
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: Michael Wallace on Sun, 26 March 2006 18:46
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: Phony Account on Sun, 26 March 2006 18:35
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: Michael Wallace on Sat, 25 March 2006 13:15
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: Phony Account on Sat, 25 March 2006 04:34
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: Foldy Lajos on Sat, 25 March 2006 01:33
		Re: Installing 6.2 on Fedora Core 5 By: David Fanning on Fri, 24 March 2006 20:11

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