New to all of this. Please help.

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> "error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory."

The application is linked against this library version (v 2.8). You 
cannot just make a link from a differnt and incompatible library version ( v 
3.0.2) and expect things to magically work, sadly. 

You'll need to either recompile the application and link against the 
library you have installed (which should match the compiler you have 
installed) or the the correct library version and install it.

Details on how to do both can be found on the Debian lists. I suggest you 
post there, and good luck.

-benjamin