Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 07:21 +1000, Steve Morris wrote:
>
>  
>>> There are numerous ways to get the necessary file.... USB stick, CDROM
>>> drive?
>>>    
>> I could, but why should I have to? If this older version is a
>> requirement why was it not auto selected and locked as part of, in my
>> case, selecting all software categories at install time?
>>  
>
> Nothing in Mandriva's repos needs libstdc++5 . Only external apps do.
>  
Thanks Adam, I guess that explains why libstdc++5 is in contrib and
libstdc++6 is in main.

regards,
Steve