OpenDX Installation

[InKo]

does someone have experience with the installation of OpenDX?
I have a standard FC4 installation on IBM ThinkPad R52. I have tried to install OpenDX (opendx-4.3.2-1.rh9.rpm downloaded from www.opendx.org) but the installation failed with the error:
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by opendx-4.3.2-1.i386
libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by opendx-4.3.2-1.i386
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by opendx-4.3.2-1.i386

I set libstdc++.so.5 to the existing library as follows
ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.4 libstdc++.so.5
but nothing changed.

Any ideas? thank you in advance!

[grndplane]

I am a newbi and I am sure you know, but this worked for me.
yum install libstdc++so.5

[hotdog]

That rather ancient rpm is for RedHat 9, not Fedora Core 4, and is dependant on some old versions of the standard libraries for C++. Fortunately Fedora has some optional backwards compatibility packages to allow you to run old binary packages such as this one. Just yum install compat-libstdc++33 to install the compatibility package you need for libstdc++.so.5, then try to install the OpenDX rpm again. If there are other dependancy problems you may need to install more of the compat-* packages too.

EDIT: Beaten to it :) And with a better response, too, I was forgetting that yum is clever enough to find the package which provides a library for you.

[InKo]

Thank you, grndplane!

I solved this problem by installing of compat-libstdc++-8-3.3.4.2.i386.rpm as follows:

yum install compat-libstdc++-8-3.3.4.2.i386.rpm

and then

rpm -Uhv opendx-4xxx

and now it works!

[InKo]

wow! 2 replies in 10 min...
;-)

thanx to all