--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lee Jenkins <lee@...> wrote:

> Centos 4.4
> FirebirdCS-1.5.3-4870
>
> Installing from the rpm, no programs can run because they say that
> client libraries cannot be loaded. I poked around after reading over
> the release notes and I see the libraries there in /opt/firebird/lib
> with links to them in /usr/lib.
>
> I'm trying to connect from lazarus (latest builds) using uib and

even if

> I point the component directly to the libfbclient.so link in

/usr/lib, I

> get the same thing.
>
> I also tried running isql which threw an exception saying that
> "libstdc++.so.5 could be opened "No such file or directory".
>
> The installation with the rpm seemd to go fine, no errors or mention of
> missing dependencies, etc.
>
> I've worked with fb on windows quite a bit, but I'm just cutting my
> teeth on linux so any pointers would be appreciated.

I don't know which packages are required by CentOS, but this is a
common issue: you need a C++ library compatibility package.

compat-libstdc++-8 (Fedora Core 3)
compat-libstdc++-33 (Fedora Core 5; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4)

This should fix it.

Steve

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