Labview Linux can not locate libstdc++.so.5

[Edo777]

 dear all,

I just installed labview 8.5 for linux on an Ubuntu 8.4 machine, but launching the sw I get the message:

 ./labview: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I checked in the /usr/lib and the newer version of the   libstdc++.so.6 is present, so, I can not understand why it is not possible to locate the library...

sorry, I am pretty new in linux..

regards,

Edo

[Jacco K · Accepted solution]

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Edo777 wrote:

 ./labview: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I checked in the /usr/lib and the newer version of the   libstdc++.so.6 is present, so, I can not understand why it is not possible to locate the library...

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Try making a (symbolic) link called libstdc++.so.5 pointing to libstdc++.so.6. Now, I'm not sure how the sudo thing in Ububububu works, I use another distribution, but I think it would look something like this: 

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /us/lib/libstdc++.so.5

Notice, that the library is of a slightly newer version, I can't guarantee full backwards compatibility. But it's worth a shot right? 

Hope it helps! 

[Edo777]

thanks a lot for this hint! it worked greatly!

[JoeFriedchicken]

In case you don't want to bluff LabVIEW into using a different version, LabVIEW includes the correct libstdc++ shared library in its directory tree. Look in the "linux" directory for your version of LabVIEW. I have 8.2 installed on my system:

/usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-8.2/linux> ls -l
total 2860
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users    4096 2008-09-19 11:12 gnome
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users    4096 2008-09-19 11:12 icons
drwxrwxr-x 4 root users    4096 2008-09-19 11:12 kde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users      16 2008-09-19 11:11 libOSMesa.so.4 -> libOSMesa.so.4.0
-r-xrwxr-x 1 root users 1428304 2006-06-06 15:24 libOSMesa.so.4.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users      18 2008-09-19 11:11 libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.3
-r-xrwxr-x 1 root users  720784 2006-06-13 18:03 libstdc++.so.5.0.3
-r-xrwxr-x 1 root users  740030 2007-02-22 18:00 LV82NPlugin.so
-r--rw-r-- 1 root users      56 2007-02-22 18:00 LV_RemotePanelConnection.lic
-r--rw-r-- 1 root users     644 2007-02-22 18:00 README.desktop
-r--rw-r-- 1 root users    1291 2007-02-22 18:00 README.libs