Shout out to you other n00bs

I've just found a solution to a problem, from my fruitless Googling it appears to be a quite common one, so here's the solution I found (just in case anyone else is having this trouble)

I've been trying to get Uplink to run under Linux. After patching to the latest version, I kept getting this error:

error while loading shared libraries libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I went back to my installation discs, thinking a RPM got missed. But it's not on there. So I went to Google, only to find a buttload of "I got this error, how do I fix it?" posts on various forums (most of them followed by even more "I got that error too, if you fix it tell me how" posts). And then I found this article, it's about Open Office but it seems to apply to what I'm trying to do as well.

Specifically, this part:

Notice that it's actually a symbolic link pointing to another file -- libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so -- that must be the file that really does the heavy lifting. So, based on the evidence I see here, I should be able to fix my OpenOffice problem by doing the following as root:

ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3

In other words, I created a symbolic link named libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3, which is what the error indicated OpenOffice was looking for but could not find, and pointed it to the correct file: libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so.

(x-posted to linuxnewbies, linux and my own journal)