jw wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when I try to run certain programs. Most
> recently I downloaded and installed RealPlayer RPM. When I try and run
> the application the following error comes up.
>
> (error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory)
>
> Can someone please help me here?

Do you have such a library installed on your machine? I do:

$ locate libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.3

$ ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 19 11:33 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 ->
libstdc++.so.5.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 709488 Feb 28 13:51 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.3

On my system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, it comes in package:
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.3
libstdc++-3.2.3-52


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