[ILUG] libstdc++.so.5 not available / Error installing Firefox 1.0.4 on Mandrake 10.2.

[Brian Foster]

  | From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Se=E1n_Mac_Suibhne?= <SeanMac2003 at eircom.net>
  | Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:22:41 +0100
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  | Scríobh Niall O Broin ar D% :
.............................^^
                    interesting time/date/whatever?

  |  > You can TRY doing
  |  >  ln  -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
  |  > which might work, but then again, it might not.
  |  > Niall
  | 
  | Thanks for that Niall, It didn't.

 I believe Seán said he cut and pasted the results (below).
 so looking at the raw results he e-mailed, below, we see
 there is an extra character — U+00A0 (which happens to
 be invisible) — before the `-s', and hence what he
 apparently effectively typed was:

    ln FILE FILE FILE

 which is, of course, _exactly_ what causes the error
 shown from ln(1):

  | [root at localhost lib]# ln =A0-s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
.............................^^^
                         extra character, turning the
                          (intended) `-s' option into a
                           third (unintended) filename.

  | ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory

 so whilst Seán obviously intended to try Niall's
 suggestion, he didn't quite.

cheers!
	-blf-
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