SAP Java Gui on CentOS 4.3

Question

I've been fiddeling most of the day to get the SAP gui (version 6.40rev6 & 7.00) to run on my CentOS 4.3 workstation, No matter what I do the gui fails to start with errors about shared libraries.
After some googling, I was pointed in the direction of libstdc++. I confirmed this was installed on my system. To be sure I redownloaded the RPM and installed it.
I confirmed i had libstdgc++ in my /usr/lib library. I then noticed I had a newer version (libstdc+.so.6 instead of libstdc+.so.5 that the GUI wants). There are several things on this system that require the library so downgrading is not really an option.
I decided to create a link to libstdc+.so.6 called libstdc+.so.5 to see if that helped. The error changed but unfortunatly I still can't start the gui.
The current error is:
############################# ERROR #############################
31.08. 11:40:23.366 ERROR: Attempt to load shared library /opt/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.00/bin/libJPlatin.so failed.
The library file exists, so either the program
don't has the privileges to access the library
or the library is not loadable by the shared object loader
Technical information:
Error location: GuiJniLoader.loadPlatinLibrary()
Error message : /opt/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.00/bin/libJPlatin.so: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: version `CXXABI_1.2' not found (required by /opt/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.00/bin/libJPlatin.so)
############################# ERROR #############################
Anyone have a suggestion?

Answer 1

I found this thread to be very helpful
I am using Fedora Core 8 which uses "yum" to install updates.
You can ask yum to find the package that provides the library you are looking for with the command:
yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
yum will reply with "compat-libstdc+-33.i386 : Compatibility standard C+ libraries"
Therefore the command to install the library is
yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33
Hope someone finds this helpful!