On Saturday 23 September 2006 05:59, Christopher Granade wrote: [...] > /opt/skype/skype.bin: error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > I then ran revdep-rebuild to try and fix the problem, and it said that > that libstdc++.so.5 was broken, and that it would fix it. After > revdep-rebuild ran, I went back to run Skype again and got the same > error. Running revdep-rebuild a second time resulted in the exact same > output. Any ideas? Thanks.
revdep-rebuild doesn't look at /opt (which is where binary stuff like skype is installed). Also remerging won't help since it's binary. It won't be recompiled since the source code isn't available. sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 provides libstdc++.so.5: # emerge -va sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 -- Bo Andresen
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