Error While loading shared libraries libstdc++.so.5
libstdc++, linux, shared-libraries, ubuntu
Solution
Chances are that, if you're running a program old enough to need `libstdc++` v5, it's also a 32-bit application, so it can't use the (64-bit) `libstdc++5` you installed. Install the `ia32-libs` package.
Problem
I'm attempting to run a program called GlimmerHMM, however when I try to call the program I get this error: ``` ./glimmerhmm_linux ./glimmerhmm_linux: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ``` So I tried downloading and installing: ``` sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: html2text libmail-sendmail-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: libstdc++5 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 183 not upgraded. Need to get 255 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,155 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libstdc++5 amd64 1:3.3.6-25ubuntu1 [255 kB] Fetched 255 kB in 4s (54.0 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libstdc++5. (Reading database ... 176303 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libstdc++5 (from .../libstdc++5_1%3a3.3.6-25ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Setting up libstdc++5 (1:3.3.6-25ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place ``` But I still get the same error when calling the program. Thanks in advance!