[manwyddan]

Hi - would appreciate some help on this one. I've installed Fedora 8 - all fine. I've downloaded Thunderbird 2.0.0.9, unzipped etc into its own directory and tried installing by running thunderbird (also tried all of the other executable scripts), but no joy. It complains that it can't find libstdc++.so.5. I've got .6 on my system, so I made a symbolic link from .6 to .5, but I now get

./thunderbird-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `GLIBCPP_3.2' not found (required by ./thunderbird-bin)
./thunderbird-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `CXXABI_1.2' not found (required by ./thunderbird-bin)
./thunderbird-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `GLIBCPP_3.2' not found (required by ./libxpcom_core.so)
./thunderbird-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `CXXABI_1.2' not found (required by ./libxpcom_core.so)
./thunderbird-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `GLIBCPP_3.2' not found (required by ./libxpcom_compat.so)

can anyone please shed some light on what's going on and how I might get over this.

cheers

[jazap]

I had this same issue, but i fixed it with an easy button using a package prebuilt for Fedora 8

try this:

yum install thunderbird

should install and lookie like this:

fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package thunderbird.i386 0:2.0.0.9-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ===========================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ===========================
Installing:
thunderbird i386 2.0.0.9-1.fc8 updates 23 M

Transaction Summary
================================================== ===========================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 23 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): thunderbird-2.0.0. 100% |=========================| 23 MB 00:54
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: thunderbird ######################### [1/1]

Installed: thunderbird.i386 0:2.0.0.9-1.fc8
Complete!

[phreakincool]

I ran into this same error and attempted to fix by making the same libstdc++.so.6 to libstdc++.so.5 link. No joy.

Ultimately, I ended up finding this link. For my installation of Ubuntu 8, I used the following command to install Mozilla Thunderbird:
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$ sudo apt-get install thunderbird [enter]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
latex-xft-fonts thunderbird-gnome-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
thunderbird
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.0MB of archives.
After this operation, 32.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 Index of / hardy/main thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [11.0MB]
Fetched 11.0MB in 28s (378kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package thunderbird.
(Reading database ... 97231 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking thunderbird (from .../thunderbird_2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up thunderbird (2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
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Thunderbird installed fine and worked!