On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 06:12:54PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > I got the game Terminus and installed it on my Woody box. > Every time I try to run it I get this error: > > terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory [...] > Grab libstdc++2.8 from potato. It should still work OK. > > (/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb) > > The question I have is: How? > I tried to simply add a line to sources.list that replaces stable with > potato, but it had issues when it got to that line.
Just use ftp. A sample session of me downloading that file: seneca@dodecagon:~$ ftp ftp> o mirror.direct.ca ftp: mirror.direct.ca: Unknown server error [normal for this mirror] ftp> o mirror.direct.ca [normal welcome stuff] ftp> cd pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/oldlibs 250 CWD command successful. ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> get libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb [getting file] 226 Transfer complete. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. seneca@dodecagon:~$ sudo dpkg -i libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
