Wednesday, 23 September 2009

GWT on 64Bit Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

Lately I've been testing Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 64Bit due out next month, when I came across an annoying bug with Google Web toolkit's hosted mode.

libstdc++.so.5 cannot open shared object file no such file or directory

After searching around it seems the libstdc++5 package has been removed in Karmic.
If you are running 32Bit Karmic you can download and install the version from Jaunty libstdc++5

If your running 64Bit Karmic then you need the ia32-libs package, it contains alot more than libstdc++5 so I just extracted libstdc++.so.5.0.7 from the package and copied it to /usr/lib32/ and created a link to /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5