FC4 won't install Acrobat Reader 7 RPM, Java with Netbeans

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Try running the latter like it says:

.jdk-blah-blah.bin -console

IIRC libstdc++ is a separate file. It is independent of gcc. Or it was, anyway.

There are plenty of ways around the first one if you can't get what you have to install, or if it's installed and it's the wrong version, or if it's installed and it's compiled against the wrong gcc or something else.

My favorite *workaround* is to make up a directory, download files for the stuff I need (libstdc++.so.5 in the above instance), use midnight commander to extract the files I need to the directory I made, add the directory to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. It's a roundabout way, but sometimes RPM doesn't give a lot of choice. Sometimes it still won't work because of this or that conflict.

Another way is to find the souce RPM (SRPM) and recompile it. That may or may not have similar dependency problems.

Still another method is to look for a version that's made for your particular distro release.

One more way is to use '--nodeps' (better) or '--force' (last resort) to install it. It probably won't work, but I've been pleasantly surprised before. You can always uninstall it if it fails to function.

The last way I can think of if you insist on staying with the RPM type packaging is to get the tarball binary and install it (no RPM) or the source and compile it (still no RPM unless you use something like checkinstall).

My preferred method is to install it to a Debian-based installation, using a binary designed for Debian. I've only had a couple of problems where this didn't work (wrong version, no binary, etc). In those cases I was still able to get the tarball and get it going.

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