bitcoin-0.3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS library errors

[mcdett]

Just downloaded the bitcoin 0.3 package for linux and am having library problems on a Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS system.

Some version info:
user@server:~/src/bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)

user@server:/home/user/src/bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64# ./bitcoind
./bitcoind: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I installed libglib2.0-dev...

user@server:/home/user/src/bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64# sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libglib2.0-0 pkg-config
... removed for space ...
Setting up libglib2.0-dev (2.16.6-0ubuntu1.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

and now I get this gcc lib error...

user@server:/home/user/src/bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64# ./bitcoind
./bitcoind: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by ./bitcoind)

any thoughts?

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[Xunie]

Are you sure you're running 64 bit Ubuntu? Try running the 32 bit version, and please paste the output of 'uname -m', without the quotes that is!

And seeing that you're using 8.04, which is quite an old version as 10.04 is the current stable, I suggest you update your system.
Please note that Debian Lenny users also have the same problem, I guess this will be fixed in the next release.
This is not a bug, it's an error of the programmer who compiled this.
Bitcoin was built on Ubuntu 10.04, which is more bleeding edge than, well... 8.04 and Debian Lenny!

I guess this will be resolved in the next release.

[mcdett]

user@server:~/src/bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64$ uname -m
x86_64

[Xunie]

user@server:~/src/bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64$ uname -m
x86_64

You never said if you tried the 32 bit version.
But seeing it's x86_64, your system is probably outdated.
Either updating your system or wiping out everything and installing Ubuntu 10.04 from scratch should do the trick.

[mcdett]

Upgrading to 10.04 worked!  Thanks for the help!

[Xunie]

Upgrading to 10.04 worked!  Thanks for the help!

No thanks, anyhow, why would you run such an old system?!

[mcdett]

why would you run such an old system?!

It sits in the corner left untouched doing it's job... no monitor, no keyboard.  Just a non-gui linux box with great up-time serving a purpose.  No need to upgrade it until I installed a piece of software (bitcoin).