While setting up a websphere test server I ran into a minor dependency error during the beginning of installing the necessary packages for websphere. The IBM Java SDK RPM on CentOS 6 was complaining about a failed dependency of a libstdc++ library. The RPM I was attempting to install required libstdc++.so.5 and CentOS 6 has libstdc++.so.6 installed by default. All that is required is to install the libstdc++ compat RPM. The information below describes the error in more detail, how I located the package that installed the necessary file(s), and an example of installing the needed package.

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I received the below error when troubleshooting an issue reported to me by a client regarding one of their intranet web sites not working properly. After some poking around I noticed that there were numerous segmentation faults being reported in the Apache error logs. I had previously set up the server to dump core files when there were segmentation faults within Apache so troubleshooting the error was fairly easy. It ended up being a connection issue with an AS400 that was down over the weekend at the company and I was able to verify this using the below information.

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