An application fails to load with an error ': error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'

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Issue

  • An application fails to load with the following error.
    # ./rc.dcerpcd start 
Starting DCE 
RPC portmapper: /opt/dce-1.1/bin/rpcd: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  • The application works correctly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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