ubuntu installation programs problem

**sahaf** · 11-09-2005

hi there

i have just finsh the instlation of kubuntu but it does not have
realplayer and firefox

when i try to install them this problem happened

[ahmed@linux:~/Linux programs/FireFox/firefox-1.0.7.installer/firefox-installer$ ./firefox-installer-bin
./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ahmed@linux:~/Linux programs/FireFox/firefox-1.0.7.installer/firefox-installer$]
and with realplayer the same thing
please how can i solve this problem
please help me with the detials
thank you

**smolloy** · 11-09-2005

To me this seems to imply you don't have certain c++ libraries installed.

To explain,
Installations in linux work differently from installations in windows. Instead of having EVERYTHING in the installation file, linux assumes that you have (or can get) certain common libraries and other files. This cuts down on the size of the file you have to download, but it does cause people headaches when they find they don't have some necessary files.

But don't worry there is a way to fix this. First I'll go through the slightly more difficult way,
To install firefox it is telling you that you need to have libstdc++.so.5 installed. I just did a quick search and found that you need to install this file. Just download it, save it to your home directory and type the following code at the command line,

Code:

rpm -U filename.rpm

After that everything should work ok. Or..... You'll get a complaint saying that it need yet another dependency installed

In that case you'll just have to repeat this process.

I'm not that familiar with ubuntu, so I don't know if there is an easier way of doing this. I know with suse I'd click on "install using yast" and let it do all the hard work. There's quite likely an similar way to do this with ubuntu, but I'll have to leave that to the ubunut experts!!!

**AlexK** · 11-09-2005

You need root permissions to install programs, do the following:

Code:

sudo ./firefox-installer

Since k/ubuntu is based on debian, you should read up about installing programs using apt. See this tutorial, scroll down a bit tilll it talks about installing programs via apt.

@ smolloy
Since the OP is using ubuntu, installing via rpm won't do the trick as Ubuntu is based on debian, and Debian can't understand rpm's unless you use a third party program called alien.

**sahaf** · 11-09-2005

oh

it does not work

**junkman4547** · 11-09-2005

Since Ubunto is Debian-based, try

$su
(type in your password)
#apt-get mozilla-firefox

**AlexK** · 11-09-2005

Originally Posted by sahaf

oh

it does not work

so you are saying that sudo firefox-installer doesn't work? Hmm if it gives the same error, you are going to download that lib and install it (don't download an rpm).

Or you can see the tutorial that I linked to, read up about apt and install using apt. The advantage of using apt is that if there is any dependancy, apt will download and install it for you.

To install using apt, just do this command (after setting it up)

Code:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox

**smolloy** · 11-09-2005

Originally Posted by AlexK

@ smolloy
Since the OP is using ubuntu, installing via rpm won't do the trick as Ubuntu is based on debian, and Debian can't understand rpm's unless you use a third party program called alien.

Apologies, I didn't know that.

Well, you learn something new everyday don't you?!

**lpcustom** · 11-10-2005

Code:

sudo apt-get install realplayer

**sahaf** · 11-10-2005

oh
please help me how can i solve it

**smolloy** · 11-10-2005

Originally Posted by sahaf

oh
please help me how can i solve it

Did you try any of the above suggestions?? What happened when you did?? What exactly did you do?? What (if any) were the error messages??

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