Thanks - I've given this a go and everything seems to be working well. Thanks all for your input. I must say I've never used these mailing lists before and I'm very impressed with the amount of information offered by the Debian community.
Cheers Craig >>> David Zoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25.10.2000 6:44:02 am >>> Ben Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:24:29PM +1100, Craig Law wrote: > > I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software > > from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... > > > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > > > > I've had a look at this distribution and Debian 2.2 uses > > > > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 > > > > Is it possible to go backwards and am I likely to break anything? If I > > cannot go backwards should I start with the 2.1 distribution and work my > > way > > up? > > Both of these are in Debian 2.2, just need to find the right package (dpkg > -l libstdc++\* or apt-cache search libstdc). $ dpkg-deb -c libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:42:13 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:41:55 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:41:56 ./usr/lib/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 256240 2000-02-19 10:41:56 ./usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:41:50 ./usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:41:52 ./usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:41:52 ./usr/share/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-02-19 10:41:57 ./usr/share/doc/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 190 2000-02-19 08:43:22 ./usr/share/doc/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1/README -rw-r--r-- root/root 3047 2000-02-19 10:12:39 ./usr/share/doc/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1/README.Debian -rw-r--r-- root/root 2740 2000-02-19 08:43:22 ./usr/share/doc/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1/copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 12130 2000-02-19 09:12:03 ./usr/share/doc/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1/changelog.Debian.gz Looks like libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 does what you're looking for. It's part of standard potato, just run "apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" Best of luck, -Gleef -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
