Re: Problem starting abiword

On Friday 07 October 2005 08:37 pm, j Mak wrote:
> mak@ubuntu:~$ abiword
> abiword: error while loading shared libraries:
> libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory

I don't know how much experience you have in Linux (and I don't have all that
much), so I'll tell you what I think I know, and hopefully others will chip
in to help as they can or as needed.

The problem is that you are missing one or more libraries (after fixing this
problem you may find the next library that's missing, or we'll try something
else).

But first run locate or find to see if you have a libstdc++.so.6. (You might
have it, but it might be in a place abiword doesn't look--hmm, but I guess
that's probably unlikely--I think it's more likely you don't have it.)

So, in that case, you need to Google for libstdc++.so.6, preferably for your
version of Ubuntu. Find it, download it, install it, and try abiword again.
With luck, you'll be good to go.

You might also want to run "ldd abiword"--it should tell you all the libraries
that abiword needs, then you could run locate to check that each is
available.

PS: Some/oftentimes you won't find the exact version of the library you need,
but some later version in the same series. You might find
libstdc++.so.6.0.3, what you need to do then (although I think it is often
done automatically for you by many installers) is to make a link named
libstdc++.so.6, like so:

(in the directory where your libraries are installed, run)

ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.3 libstdc++.so.6

Hope this helps! Write again if you still have problems (although I'm not
sure I'll be able to help).

Randy Kramer
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Received on Sat Oct 8 04:14:57 2005