300785 - libstdc++.so.5 seems to be required. Fedora 4 has latest libstdc++.so.6 which won't work with TB.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259888

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Milo Blakely]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

When attempting to run Thunderbird 1.0.5 I get an error message that it cannot
find libstdc++.so.5 which is required by thunderbird-bin.  I am using Fedora
Core 4 which provides libstdc++.so.6, I assume a later version of the file. 
However, TB does not work with it, either by that name or through a link so it
thinks it is .5, not .6.  I found the .5 version, installed it and the new TB
works fine.  Suggest either TB work with any version .5 or above, or a comment
be put in the release notes and installation instructions pointing out the need,
and providing/suggesting a source for the version needed. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See details.

Actual Results:  
See details.

Expected Results:  
Program should have run.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's why you should use a Fedora RPM (when that becomes available), not a
standard release. Not every distro has 259888++.so.6.

It's mentioned in the system requirements btw ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259888 ***

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

see <http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008524.html>

According to Red Hat, you should /only/ use their releases, not the one from
Mozilla.