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In a previous post about how to install Flash Media Server 2 on CentOS 4.4 I came across a problem that required the installation of the libstdc++ compatability package to get the server to run as it is designed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

The same problem applies to the installation of the x86 linux driver package for ATI Radion 9600 series cards (at least).

Basically, download and install of the driver goes pretty smoothly but when xorg is configured to use it (in particular for TV output it seems) the driver fails and the xserver crashes - the reason for this is that it requires /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 and CentOS 5 provides version 6 of this library upwards.

So yet again we can solve this problem by running:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.i386

To install the previous version of this library as part of the compatability package.

I wish software vendors would consider these upgrades to libraries when they release their programs - oh well, maybe one day.

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