libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found

Question

To upload the raw-reads > 2GB to SRA on Genebank, I installed aspera connect plug-in on ubuntu 16.04. But the plug-in did not pop up as indicated by the instruction on the genebank SRA portal.

I got this error on the terminal as I initializing the plug-in locally (~/.aspera/connect/bin/asperaconnect):

lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxy.so.1) Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so 

I followed some of the threads, created a link to /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 But it did not address the problem, still showing the error message above. running strings /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX got this:

strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX GLIBCXX_3.4 GLIBCXX_3.4.1 GLIBCXX_3.4.2 GLIBCXX_3.4.3 GLIBCXX_3.4.4 GLIBCXX_3.4.5 GLIBCXX_3.4.6 GLIBCXX_3.4.7 GLIBCXX_3.4.8 GLIBCXX_3.4.9 GLIBCXX_3.4.10 GLIBCXX_3.4.11 GLIBCXX_3.4.12 GLIBCXX_3.4.13 GLIBCXX_3.4.14 GLIBCXX_3.4.15 GLIBCXX_3.4.16 GLIBCXX_3.4.17 GLIBCXX_3.4.18 GLIBCXX_3.4.19 GLIBCXX_3.4.20 GLIBCXX_3.4.21 GLIBCXX_3.4.22 GLIBCXX_3.4.23 GLIBCXX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH 

GLIBCXX_3.4.20 is in the list. I don't know how to make the plug-in recognize that.

Thank you, Xp

Answer 1

Here's a solution for this problem in Ubuntu 16.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 sudo apt-get upgrade libstdc++6 

You can check if you get GLIBCXX desired version like this:

strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX