[NTLUG:Discuss] Upgrading gcc libraries--best way?

[Ed Coates]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, John Thomas wrote:

> I've downloaded Firefox for my RH 7.3 laptop system, and I get a failed
> dependency for libstdc++.so.5.  After finding and running this rpm I get 
> further failed dependencies.
>
> Is there a practical way to upgrade all the libraries?  For example, with one 
> rpm?  Or should I just wipe my disk and install the latest OS release?
>
> Obviously, I know enough to know what a dependency is and use rpm, but I'm 
> not a pro software engineer.  I just want to run Firefox!
>
> Any tips or pointers are appreciated.
>

Redhat 7.3 is pretty old, and I'm not even sure that it's still supported. 
It might be better to reload with the latest to avoid things like this.

That said, I might suggest that Redhat might have a tool to install 
software.  Unfortunately, I don't have experience with Redhat since it 
dropped Sun Sparc support after 6.2.  I would bet that it has a tool like 
SuSE does that will let  you pick somewhere out on the web as the 
installation source, and when you pick something to install, it will find 
the dependencies and install them too.

Ed