Need help installing Firefox 2.0 in Fedora 5

[Jeff7181]

I have to use Fedora 5 for a class, so I'm trying to put Firefox 2.0 on it. Currently it comes with 1.5, but yum won't upgrade it.

So I've tried to install it myself like this...

mkdir /home/jeff/firefox
cd /home/jeff/firefox
cp /home/jeff/Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.4.tar.gz .
tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.4.tar.gz

All that appears to work... but when I try to run the program from the command line, I get the following error message.

error while loading shared libraries:libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

 

[DarkThinker]

You need the compat-libstdc++-33 package.
From now on whenever you hit a missing package/library issue, the best way to investigate it is to do the following:

[root@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
Loading "installonlyn" plugin



compat-libstdc++-33.i386 3.2.3-61 development
Matched from:
libstdc++.so.5


This command will tell yum to look for that package/library and see from which package can it be supplied.

After that do a :
[root@localhost ~]$ yum install compat-libstdc++-33

And you should be good to go.

And BTW: May I ask why you are still using Fedora 5? I am assuming you know that's two versions behind right?

 

[Jeff7181]

My school uses FC5 for the intro to Linux class.

And thanks, that solved the problem.