I have 2 machines I was testing this on.
I have an XBMC Live ‘Dharma’ (10.1) based on the Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS media center PC. I downloaded and extracted PlexMediaServer-v0.9.2.8-34480ac to my home directory and it starts up fine using the start.sh script on that box.
I also have a rackmount server running Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS that I would prefer to run PlexMediaServer on (more CPU power for transcodeing and I can ssh tunnel into it from outside). I went through the same download and extraction of PlexMediaServer-v0.9.2.8-34480ac on that box and when I try and run the start.sh script it gives me the following message:
“~/PlexMediaServer-v0.9.2.8-34480ac$ ./Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
Both have that library located in ‘/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6’ … any ideas? an environment variable issue?
start.sh is what you need to run (that sets up environment paths), but otherwise, try running
<br />
$ ldd Plex\ Media\ Server<br />
And see what it says.
~/PlexMediaServer-v0.9.2.8-34480ac$ ldd Plex\ Media\ Server
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf771c000)
libcurl.so.4 => not found
libsoci_sqlite3-gcc-3_0-3.0.0.so => not found
libswscale.so.0 => not found
libavutil.so.50 => not found
libavcodec.so.52 => not found
libavformat.so.52 => not found
libxml2.so.2 => not found
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7706000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => not found
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf76ed000)
libsoci_core-gcc-3_0-3.0.0.so => not found
libboost_program_options.so.1.46.1 => not found
libboost_signals.so.1.46.1 => not found
libboost_filesystem.so.1.46.1 => not found
libboost_regex.so.1.46.1 => not found
libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 => not found
libboost_thread.so.1.46.1 => not found
libboost_system.so.1.46.1 => not found
libminiupnpc.so.5 => not found
libnatpmp.so.1 => not found
libavahi-client.so.3 => not found
libavahi-common.so.3 => not found
libepeg.so.0 => not found
libfreeimage.so.3 => not found
libpython2.7.so.1.0 => not found
libiconv.so.2 => not found
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf76d5000)
librt.so.1 => /lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf76cb000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib32/libutil.so.1 (0xf76c7000)
libstdc++.so.6 => not found
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf76a1000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7546000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf771d000)
/usr/lib$ ls -alF|grep libstdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2011-04-25 21:09 libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1044112 2010-03-26 20:16 libstdc++.so.6.0.13
Looks like you're on a 64-bit system, i bet if you "file" that libstdc++.so.6.0.13 it'll be x86_64, and perhaps you don't have a 32-bit version on /lib32 or /usr/lib32
Didn’t realize Plex MS needed the 32 bit libraries as opposed to the AMD64 bit ones. I scp’d 32 bit versions of libstdc++.so.6 into /usr/lib32/ and libgcc_s.so.1 into /lib32/ and it’s working great now. Thanks for the awesome help!
Edit: I’ve since gone back and just done a "sudo apt-get install ia32-libs"
Thanks for the sharing the solution!
I recently got this issue after the latest Ubuntu upgrade with latest PMS. What I did was this:
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
Because:
user@server:~/folder$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
[sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
(1) The last answer was 7 years ago 
Please do not resurrect such old threads.
(2) I am pretty sure you just installed the 32 bit Plex package on your 64 bit Ubuntu. Please just reinstall the correct 64 bit package.
Please create a new thread.
Be also advised, Ubuntu 10 is no longer supported
