Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with libstdc++.

["Christopher E. Granade" <cgranade@gmail.com>]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:04, Christopher E. Granade wrote:
>   
>> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 23 September 2006 05:59, Christopher Granade wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>       
>>>> /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
>>>       
>> Running this command reveals that libstdc++-v3 was already emerged. I
>> reemerged anyway, and the error persists. Thank you for the help, but it
>> seems that there's something else wrong. Is this a problem with amd64?
>>     
>
> Not really sure. On amd64 this requires some of the 
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* packages (since skype is a 32 bit app), but it 
> should pull them by itself... What does:
>
> # equery check app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat
>
> give? What version of skype are you using? Please also post the output of:
>
> # emerge --info
>
>   
Well, I didn't know about equery check. That told me that the package
was broken, and so I reemerged it. Skype now works! Thank you so much.
--Christopher Granade
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