Package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 missing in Hardy & Intrepid

[Anthony Edwards]

All Ubuntu versions prior to Hardy Heron (since at least Dapper Drake, and possibly prior to that) have included package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 in the Universe repository, e.g.:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/libs/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/libs/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

However, the package is not included in released LTS version Hardy Heron, nor Intrepid Ibex.

The package is a requirement for users wishing to configure their Ubuntu systems to access Juniper SSL VPNs using the methodology explained at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232607

To summarise a long thread, methodology is:

$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-bin
$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-plugin
$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre

$ sudo aptitude install openssl
$ sudo aptitude install libmotif3
$ sudo aptitude install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/libssl.so.2
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.2
$ sudo ldconfig

Once done, a user can connect to a Juniper SSL VPN gateway, download and install the Juniper Network Connect client than access a corporate VPN as effectively as on a Windows or Mac computer.

(the symlinking is required because the Juniper Network Connect client was developed for use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which names the two symlinked libraries differently as per the symlinks)

However, "$ sudo aptitude install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2" is no longer possible in Hardy & Intrepid since the package is no longer present in the Universe (nor any other) repository (users, including myself, have manually downloaded it from previous version repositories then installed the package using dpkg -i however this should ideally not be necessary).

Juniper SSL VPNs are very popular. If we hope to solve Bug #1, making it as easy as possible for users to configure Ubuntu systems to interoperate with such mainstream enterprise resources is important.

Please add package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 to the Universe repositories for Hardy & Intrepid to remedy this.