Ubuntu 9.10 and SPSS 16

[Badcrumble]

SPSS 16 working well under 9.04 upgraded to 9.10 all working well except SPSS 16 which I absolutely need! Tried reinstalling won't do so...fails:(
Please help...

[Pasd]

In the same boat... Just tried to boot up SPSS 16 and.... Nothing....

Please please help. I need this program or I am otherwise going to have to try and re-install 9.04 to get SPSS up and running.

[Pasd]

After a few hours of googling, I found and fixed the issue. Something to do with a 9.10 using a new libstdc++ version 6, whereas SPSS needs ver 5 (as a computer non-genius, I have no idea what this is, but no matter).

I am on a 64bit Computer and I figured out what I needed to do. If you are on a 32 bit system, I don't know what the differences are.

What I did was follow the instructions on this page:

http://agentzlerich.blogspot.com/2009/11/getting-32-bit-libstdcso5-in-karmic.html

Voila! SPSS up and running again.

[szymooon]

I have the same problem with spss 16 after upgrading to 9.10 and i've followed the above mentioned instructions but it did not help.
still getting the same message about the lack of libstdc++.so.5 :(((
i'd be grateful for any ideas

[Badcrumble]

Oh dear...tried above but no luck. Above fix is for running libstdc++.so.5 32 bit on a 64bit machine. Need to run libstdc++.so.5 on a 32bit machine so spss 16 will run under karmic koala 9.10. Can anyone help further?

[ikar6]

Problem solved for Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit as well! Just download the aforementioned package (libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb) and run it with your package manager. SPSS worked right away!;)