[OU] Install opera on Fedora 7 via RPM?

[Joel Gomberg]

Michael Hannon wrote:
> Greetings.  I recently downloaded:
> 
>      opera-9.22-20070716.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm
> 
> from:
> 
>      http://www.opera.com/download/linux/
> 
> where the sign says:
> 
>      Fedora Core 5, Core 6, Core 7
> 
> I tried installing it on a system running Fedora 7 (no "core"):
> 
>      # cat /etc/redhat-release
>      Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
> 
> but I get the following error:
> 
>      # rpm -Uvh opera-9.22-20070716.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm
>      error: Failed dependencies:
>          libstdc++.so.5 is needed by opera-9.22-20070716.6.i386
> 
> The library in question IS installed, albeit with a newer version:
> 
>      # locate libstdc++.so
>      /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
>      /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
>      /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/libstdc++.so
> 
> Is there some standard way to fix this?  Thanks.
> 
> 					- Mike
Opera uses an older version of the c++ libraries.  The solution is:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33

-- 
Joel