On Saturday 23 September 2006 05:59, Christopher Granade wrote:
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> /opt/skype/skype.bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I then ran revdep-rebuild to try and fix the problem, and it said that
> that libstdc++.so.5 was broken, and that it would fix it. After
> revdep-rebuild ran, I went back to run Skype again and got the same
> error. Running revdep-rebuild a second time resulted in the exact same
> output. Any ideas? Thanks.

revdep-rebuild doesn't look at /opt (which is where binary stuff like skype is 
installed). Also remerging won't help since it's binary. It won't be 
recompiled since the source code isn't available.

sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 provides libstdc++.so.5:

# emerge -va sys-libs/libstdc++-v3

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Bo Andresen