[ale] What is libstdc++-libc6?

[Fulton Green]

The "libstdc++" indicates a Standard C++ library, which you might have
known already.  I believe it includes some underlying support code for
the STL, as well as the streaming I/O stuff and some other C++-specific
goodies.

Now let's talk about what follows the "-" dash after that.  Assuming that
the

> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by qtopia-desktop-1.6.0-1

message is verbatim, then your

> [1032] Zaurus>sudo apt-get install -s libstdc++-glibc6

> [1021] Zaurus>apt-cache show libstdc++-libc6

commands are going to return nil results.  That *has* to be "libc6.1" on
the right-hand side of the dash (perhaps more properly "libc6.1-2").

IIRC, libc6.1 is an older version of the GNU C runtime library.  Weird
that they're not using the newer glibc stuff that everyone else uses;
maybe the Zaurus still uses libc6 (esp. if it's still using a 2.2 kernel),
and they wanted to keep the environment consistent.

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:31:06PM -0500, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> When I try to install the current qtopia-desktop rpm I get this error:
> [1020] Zaurus>sudo rpm -Uvh qtopia-desktop-1.6.0-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by qtopia-desktop-1.6.0-1
> [1021] Zaurus>
> 
> So I try to install it.  I can't find it on rpmfind.net, or with apt-get
> 
> [1032] Zaurus>sudo apt-get install -s libstdc++-glibc6
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Collecting File Provides... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package libstdc++-glibc6
> 
> If I query my apt cache I also get nothing:
> 
> [1021] Zaurus>apt-cache show libstdc++-libc6
> W: Unable to locate package libstdc++-libc6
> 
> However, I can grep for it:
> 
> [1026] Zaurus>apt-cache dump | grep libstd | grep libc
> Package: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2(GCC.INTERNAL)
> 
> So what is this rpm and why can't I detect it?
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