Michael Fisher wrote:

> I am doing an installation of Firebird SS 1.5.2 on a linux box with
> Tao Linux (variation of Red Hat Enterprise). During the installation
> process I receive the following error three times:
>
> Starting Firebird server: /opt/firebird/bin/fbmgr.bin: error while
> loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
> Is this a requirement for an older library?

Yes. The requirement is made when binary is built. If it was built
against libstdc++.so.6, then older systems wouldn't be able to use it.

> The distro I am using is
> current and the version of the library is libstdc++.so.6.

You can install both libstdc++.so.5 and libstdc++.so.6 and all
application will use what they need. Alternatively, you can compile
Firebird yourself.

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