Then why bother?

Posted Jan 5, 2009 2:48 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Then why bother? by Kit
Parent article: Android netbook is a possibility (Inquirer)

the different so names do the job today.

I ran into this yesterday on my Dad's laptop.

he installed mulberry (precompiled binary) and it wanted libstdc++.so.5 and his system has libstdc++.so.6

first try, make a symlink to .6, result: additional errors

second try, use the ubuntu package manager to install the .5 version (in addition to the .6 version), result: a system with both versions installed and apps depending on each one working happily.

I've dealt with this for several other libraries over the years, and in almost every case there have been no problems having multiple versions of the libraries on the system.

a year or so ago I dug out some ancient linux binaries (wordperfect and the first Civ game that was released for linux, both from an early Caldera release), and was able to get them both running without much hassle