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Re: Mathematica 6.0 not running in Fedora 7?

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• Subject: [mg77823] Re: Mathematica 6.0 not running in Fedora 7?
• From: Pavel Pokorny <Pavel.Pokorny at vscht.RemoveMe.MeToo.cz>
• Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:19:15 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Czech Technical University
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Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pavel Pokorny wrote:
> > Dear Mathematica friends
> > 
> > after installing Mathematica 6.0 in Fedora 7 (x86_64bit)
> > I get the following error message when trying to run it:
> > 
> > [root@localhost mma]# math
> > /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-x86-64/MathKernel: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > 
> > but I have
> > /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.8
> > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.8
> > 
> > Is it safe to make a symlink form libstdc++.so.6 to libstdc++.so.5?
> > 
> > Any help appreciated.
> > 

> A quick google search turned up a FAQ [1] that says that they are 
> incompatible so you need to install libstdc++ 5 separately.

> [1] http://forums.introversion.co.uk/uplink/viewtopic.php?p=410884

Yes, this is right.
I tried to copy libstdc++.so.6 to libstdc++.so.5 but then Mathematica 6.0 complains:
MathKernel: libstdc++.so.5 version 'GLIBCPP_3.2.2' not found.

Unfortunately, the page http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++ sais:
libstdc++-v3 is developed and released as part of GCC,
separate snapshots are no longer made available.
Who wants to install the whole old gcc?

So I had to "steal" libstdc++.so.5 from RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
(for the same architecture, x86_64 in my case)
where you can find both libstdc++.so.5 and libstdc++.so.6
and then Mathematica 6.0 runs O.K.

A message to Wolfram developers:
Could you, please, make Mathematica to run with both libstdc++.so.5 and libstdc++.so.6?

A message to Fedora developers:
Could you, please, add both libstdc++.so.5 and libstdc++.so.6 to fedora 
(like RHEL 5 has).

One more question:
can someone please explain to me why Mathematica 6.0 conflicts with 
Security Enhenced Linux?

-- 
Pavel Pokorny
Math Dept, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology
http://www.vscht.cz/mat/Pavel.Pokorny