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femc

Member

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 10

ati-fglrx issue [libstdc++5 conflict]

I just set up for first (okay, yesterday was first, today second) time my new Arch Linux. I installed xorg already, and now I'd like to install ati-fglrx (prior to Xfce4), but it complains:

* after retrieving corresponding packages *
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:

libstdc++5: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: exists in filesystem
libstdc++5: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7: exists in filesystem

pacman -Sf ati-fglrx works (tried it earlier, before reinstalling the whole OS), but I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

While installing Arch I installed only all base-categorized packages.

( Hopefully you're simple enough in your replies, I'm a newbie not only to Arch, but quite newbie to whole Linux thing. )

Thank y000h.

Last edited by femc (2007-03-31 11:24:09)

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: ati-fglrx issue [libstdc++5 conflict]

pacman -Syu your system first. I guess you installed with a very old CD which had libstdc++5 included in the gcc package. As libstdc++5 will never get updated again, we decided to have it in its own package to save compilation time for gcc.

femc

Member

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 10

Re: ati-fglrx issue [libstdc++5 conflict]

Thank you!