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update-manager package

Synaptic and Firefox will not start after updating Dapper

Bug #72846 reported by Kilz
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Bug Description

Im running the amd64 version of Dapper Drake. After updating on November 22. Synaptic will not launch when clicking on the menu launcher. Trying to launch it in the terminal gives this error.

kilz@amd64-ubuntu:~$ synaptic
synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Trying to launch Firefox in the terminal gives this error.

kilz@amd64-ubuntu:~$ firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Kilz (kilz) wrote :

I was able to do a work around. By making the libstdc++.so.6 symlink point to libstdc++.so.6.0.7 instead of libstdc++.so.6.0.8. A search of Ubuntu packages says that libstdc++.so.6.0.8 is not a file contained in any Dapper packages.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

This looks like some foreign packages got installed somehow. Can you please attach your sources.list?

Changed in update-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Kilz (kilz) wrote :

I would but that install was wiped/deleted after I corupted the whole drive about 3 weeks ago when I tried to resize a partition.

Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)
Changed in update-manager:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Sorry to hear that :(

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Kilz (kilz) wrote :

Thanks, but it wasnt as bad as it sounds. I have a web/file server (that runs Ubuntu) that I back up most important files to. Plus the Dapper install was quite old, I think from when Dapper was first released. I had learned a lot since then. So I was able to repartition the drive to make it easier to upgrade if I ever wanted to. I replaced the Dapper install, I like Dapper because of its stability, and because I know it so well. But I did install Feisty to try it.
Well in any event the problem went away. Its possible I had a package from someplace else that was causing this bug.

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