WinRAR giving me hell

[loganrtfm]

I'm new to linux, using redhat 9 for now until I decide which distro is the right one for me. I'm trying to use command line as much as possible so I can actually learn rather than having a GUI do all the work for me.. I'm kinda weird, i just want to know how to actually do things and I want to learn this operating system for no real reason at all, just curiousity and boredom..

I first installed the latest WinRAR for linux (3.9) but everytime I try to use unrar I get this error

unrar: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I read  that I needed to install an earlier version of WinRAR so I downgraded to v3.6 but i'm still getting the same error... What can i do? I've spent over a couple  hours using search engines and using forums and haven't found any answers, so I was hoping you guys could help

Thx everybody and I look forward to getting to know this O/S a little better!!

[kaushalpatel1982]

Hi,

I think you should use latest version for the  linux, because it comes with the latest packages.

Redhat 9 is too old version that might not have any support channel.

If you want dig for the librery file go for RPMForge. that might help you.

best of luck

[dragoncity99]

Sounds like your library incompatible with the one in WinRAR.

or possibly, try to do ldconfig first and run again.

If it still doesn't work. try to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to overridge it and specify the actual library file to it. Dangerous!

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html