problem installing intellij idea on new gentoo install

[purpledemon]

Hey ...

I'm trying to install Intellij IDEA 3.0 (java IDE) on my gentoo install and I get the following error :-

..
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive...
Unpacking the JRE...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Launching installer...

rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
rm: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

what is libc.so.6 ? some sort of c shared object ? not sure what that means ....
also ... would anyone know why im getting this error ?

thanks a lot for your help ...

 

[n0cmonkey]

You are probably right on what it is, Im not sure of the terminology there. But you need to get it.

 

[purpledemon]

thanks n0cmonkey

my assumption is that its part of the glibc package .... is that correct ?
glibc is already on my system ... it gets installed as part of the base gentoo install since its needed by almost everything ...
ive installed xfree, gnome and they didnt complain ... maybe they didnt use this particular shared object ?

the last time i tried a emerge -u glibc (update method in gentoo) .... i had nothing to update ...
im also assuming that i cant remove glibc altogether and resintall it ... since the c libs are vital to the system ....

any thoughts ?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: purpledemon
thanks n0cmonkey

my assumption is that its part of the glibc package .... is that correct ?
glibc is already on my system ... it gets installed as part of the base gentoo install since its needed by almost everything ...
ive installed xfree, gnome and they didnt complain ... maybe they didnt use this particular shared object ?

the last time i tried a emerge -u glibc (update method in gentoo) .... i had nothing to update ...
im also assuming that i cant remove glibc altogether and resintall it ... since the c libs are vital to the system ....

any thoughts ?

I do not know what it is part of, I only know how to find that out with rpms