[ILUG] Symbolic Linking

[Pádraig Brady]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> If I need libstdc++.so.5
> and I have:
> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
> 
> to symlink is it
> $ ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6  /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> 
> or
> 
> $ ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5  /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
> 
> Which ever is the correct method, shoul the higest version of the file
> be used ala: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8 ?

You should not symlink libraries like this.
The binary is linked against a different version for a reason.
You probably want to do: yum install compat-libstdc++-33

Pádraig.