Question

I’m attempting to run a program called GlimmerHMM, however when I try to call the program I get this error:

./glimmerhmm_linux
./glimmerhmm_linux: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I tried downloading and installing:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
html2text libmail-sendmail-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed: libstdc++5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 183 not upgraded.
Need to get 255 kB of archives.
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Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libstdc++5 amd64 1:3.3.6-25ubuntu1 [255 kB]
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Selecting previously unselected package libstdc++5.
(Reading database ... 176303 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libstdc++5 (from .../libstdc++5_1%3a3.3.6-25ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up libstdc++5 (1:3.3.6-25ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

But I still get the same error when calling the program. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Chances are that, if you’re running a program old enough to need libstdc++ v5, it’s also a 32-bit application, so it can’t use the (64-bit) libstdc++5 you installed. Install the ia32-libs package.