ANYWAY..... enough background. Here is the real issue I've run into after lots of trial and error (aka pain and suffering). In order to successfully make the .deb package without all sorts of warnings about not being able to find dependencies for library files, I've read here that the IBM Java binaries depend on libstdc++5 and libgtk1.2 packages.
I'm not sure how I check to see what I do or don't have installed. When I try to make the .deb package, I do get tons of warnings so that tells me that I don't have the correct libstdc++ and libgtk installed. As a shot from the hip, I did download libstdc++5 and installed it. Unfortunately, that seemed to break a few things (like gcc I believe) so obviously I didn't go about installing it correctly.it's possible that these libraries are not installed because they've been replaced by libstdc++6 and libgtk2.0.
So my questions are this.
1. How do I find out what libstdc++ and libgtk version I have installed?
2. How does one install these two components correctly without breaking something else in the process?
Thanks much in advance!
PS: I'm still learning Linux so the more details the better