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I have downloaded the .sfx file for IE8 from modern.ie and followed the instructions on the site, to give the file executable permission. But when running it I get an error about a missing shared library.

./IE8.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm running desktop Ubuntu 13.04, 64-bit, and Virtual Box 4.2.10

Does anyone know which package I should install? I've already run sudo apt-get install libstdc++6 (as suggested elsewhere on StackOverflow) but that has not helped.

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    people on this thread said they had to run dpkg --add-architecture i386" and "apt-get update" as well -- http://www.hellotecho.com/ubuntu-extracting-sfx-no-such-file-or-directory – chrismarx Feb 17 '14 at 16:58

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Just had the same problem. I got this working, you need two libraries

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 
sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
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