libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Problem: An application is running on Linux 7.x which uses gcc 3.2.x. It gets one of the following error messages:

libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution: Create symbolic links to make the libraries appear in the old folder:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1