Making GWT 1.5.x Hosted mode work in Ubuntu Karmic

Since my last post on making hosted mode work on Ubuntu, I had upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu Karmic ( in Beta 1 as of this writing ). While most things worked out of the box ( including wireless, mic / webcam, ZTE AC2726 modem ), I got a problem with a GWT 1.5.3 application again.

GWT 1.5.3 hosted mode requires libstdc++5. Kubuntu Karmic doesn’t ship libstdc++ 5 anymore.

Fortunately, the solution was simple.
Download libstdc++5 package for your architecture from Ubuntu Package Archives.
I used i386 version

Install the package

sudo dpkg -i libstdc++5_*.deb

You should now be able to run GWT 1.5.x hosted mode browser running again. ( This might work for GWT 1.6.x as well considering that both use Mozilla 1.7.1x that depends on libstdc++5)

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