Java 6 on Fedora, CentOS5, RHEL5 needs compat-libstdc++-33.i386

I downloaded Java 1.6 with EE 5 and tried to install it on CentOS 5. But it complained about libstdc++.

./java_ee_sdk-5_01-linux.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have libstdc++ installed, but have /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8

Sun has a bug on it.

Aparently, Fedora, Redhat, and CentOS are not supported. What they needed was to statically link. The solution is to install a previous version of libstdc++ (libstdc++.s0.5). You can do that with yum:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386

and then run the java installer:

./java_ee_sdk-5_01-linux.bin

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I got Java 1.6 installed, but java_ee_sdk-5 is still hanging:

see http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0135/gazry?a=view

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03