I run ubuntu 64 bit (technically, I run an ubuntu 64bit vserver which I access from ubuntu 32 bit but thats not really relevant).

In the open source world, I expect that all things which are accessible as 32bit are also accessible and 64bit and ubuntu makes it automagic enough that everything just works. Yes, I run into problems with closed source software like Flash Player (recently resolved with flash player 10) and the Java Plugin but that is another story. I use Eclipse and wanted to do some performance analysis and benchmarking to find a bottleneck and installed the TPTP plugin; and ran into a problem. It just didn’t work.

To resolve it, I turned to google… In this instance, it turned out to be a distraction and a red-herring. It lead me in the direction of installing libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb which was difficult at best since there was only a 32bit version of the package and that wasn’t even in the standard repository.

In the end, digging deeper, I found that it simply missed the following shared object libstdc++.so.5.

All I had to do was install libstdc++5:

sudo aptitude install libstdc++5

and it worked… 😀

Now, I think that ACServer which Eclipse uses to do TPTP should not link to an outdated library but that is another issue…