Please help, I am fairly new to Ubuntu

I have played with various flavours of linux over the years, but not enough and not recently.
I did however get inspired by the descriptions of Ubuntu I saw in the various linux threads dealing with 'will we ever see a linux client who wants one?' type of subject.
I sent for cd's and installed it on the laptop and it is a sweet little OS
its a lot more well behaved then fc4 heh
however it IS debian and I am not quite as familiar with it, and so I have no real clue how to even begin to install this, altho I did manage to get it unpacked.
I get the following error when I try to do the ./secondlife command

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

does this mean I need to install more packages for my distro of ubuntu? I have breazy badger.

and I must say so far I really like it.
thank you in advance for the help =)

The best way to fix this problem would probably be with Synaptic (front-end for apt-get). I'm not sure where, but I know somewhere in the Ubuntu/Gnome menu system you will find Synaptic (I seem to remember it being labled as "add applications" or some such.

First go to Settings->Repositories and make sure all the available repositories are enabled. Then click on "Reload". When that finishes do a search for libstdc++ and you will hopefully find some stuff. When you find what you want (may not be clear at first), right click on the box next to the name and click Mark for Installation. Then click Apply and wait.

I hope this helps.

I seem to have a lot of choices for libstdc++ should I install all of em or just what its asking for?

ok I did get the ./secondlife command to work after finding the packages it seemed to want, however when it went to create the window it said

57Z INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL Couldnt find matching GLX visual
it wants my screen in 32bit, and I know I have the nvidia packages installed for glx on here. but cannot seem to find where to make sure my screen res is at 32bit

any other breazy badgers out there? =)
thank you again in advance

Type xdpyinfo | less. Somewhere about 40 lines down, you should see a section like

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
  resolution:    95x96 dots per inch
  depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
  root window id:    0x115
  depth of root window:    24 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  [...]

What does your card report for depths?

(And yes, I use Breezy Badger too.)

I am having the same issue. I run the 64 bit version of kubuntu on an amd64 compaq laptop. My depths line reads:

depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32

help? Thanks!

My depths line is as follows

depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32


not sure whats going on, I have only been using ubuntu for 3 days
however I DO plan to migrate to it totally if I can find a solution for running quickbooks 2005 on it heheh... and SL of course

I'm running fine on Ubuntu 5.10, with NVidia GT 6600:
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glxinfo says
...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6600 GT/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.0.0 NVIDIA 76.67
...
---

I have also changed and added to
SecondLife/SecondLife-linux-02012006/SecondLife/user_settings/settings.ini
---
GraphicsCardMemorySetting 3
UseDebugMenus TRUE
---
(I have 128 MB of video RAM)

xdpyinfo
---
...
screen #0:
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
resolution: 95x96 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x131
depth of root window: 24 planes
...
---

You might need to install the latest version of the NVidia graphics driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html