On 30/01/2020 18:04, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I attempted to upgrade Calibre to the current production release.  It 
> fails to run (I can post my question) but the response given is:
> 
> SL7 is based on RHEL7 and uses GCC 4.9 (see 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_solutions_19458&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=VIryM0aQaNiX0n1xowynI6HPID-GSk5v8GbrCq2fldM&s=eWpq7f1FsG6R3tgnKBPi__pLLLgTrtRmzb2uWLpjkWg&e= ).
> 
> Solution?: wait for RHEL8, install a proper desktop linux distro or 
> follow https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__developers.redhat.com_blog_2...gcc-2D8-2Dclang-2D6_&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=VIryM0aQaNiX0n1xowynI6HPID-GSk5v8GbrCq2fldM&s=H94UEqdoz0IpzxgBa16hgbaiKAzxsoIQhIrbgUt9XbM&e= 
> 
> End quote.
> 
> I always thought that SL was a proper desktop (user interface GUI) 
> Linux, and not just Debian/Ubuntu derivatives or SUSE.
> 
> Calibre needs RuntimeError: Failed to load icu with error: 
> /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by 
> /opt/calibre/lib/libicui18n.so.64)
> 
> Is the required lib available for SL7 without disrupting the OS per se?
> 

Install flatpak and get calibre from there.  Many apps are more up-to-date and
runs pretty nicely.  See the flathub site for more details [1].


[1] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__flathub.org_home&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=0SFih-szQcuiGpSnKpWAwA4WjK7XkSEw05tsPIzMiII&s=RkFUgb91arq9CgMxH3grj29G2E6x2Qt7lv9ZjNqUBjw&e= >


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth