On Monday 06 February 2006 23:53, Tobiah wrote:

> I am running Fedora Core 2, and I tried installing Csound 5
> from rpm yesterday.  I tried to track down many failed library
> dependancies, and was able to find most, save these:
> 
> libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.1) is needed by csound-5.00.0-5
> libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.5) is needed by csound-5.00.0-5

This is the standard C++ library for GCC 4.x. Fedora Core 4 has this
version, and the RPM package is reported to work on that distribution.
There was also another RPM by John ffitch, compiled on an older
distribution with GCC 3, but unfortunately it was removed; I may
still have it somewhere on my machine, though, if you are interested.

> I'm not up on library versions, and I had trouble finding
> things on the net that looked like these.  Could I get these
> by upgrading my version of RedHat,

As noted above, Fedore Core 4 should be OK, although installing
Csound alone is probably not worth the trouble of upgrading the
entire system.
You may also try installing libstdc++.so.6, but I am not sure how
well this approach works. You could also just ignore the errors and
lose some functionality like FLTK widgets by adding --nodeps to the
rpm command line options. There may still be glibc incompatibilities,
however.

> or would the versions matter so much if I compiled from source?

Compiling from sources should fix the version problems, although
if you need more than a basic package, it may be not really easy.