One and All: I have another one of my quirky problems.
I want to install an application to run under Linux that requires Glibc 2.0 or 2.1. I'm now running RH 8.0 and it doesn't have either of these particular versions on it, defaulting to some much newer version. I have downloaded an installation copy of Glibc-2.1.3 but am stymied by the installation process. There are several issues here: 1. I have to be able to install it in such a way that it doesn't overwrite or corrupt the newer versions that already exist on the system (thereby possibly disabling the system), but it must still be available to the application when required. 2. Whatever installation instructions I can find (e.g., FAQ, INSTALL, README) are written in the usual computerese and inverse Polish shorthand that only someone-who-does-this-6-times-a-day-and-therefore-doesn't-need-the-instructions could understand. 3. These instructions refer to various versions of 'make,' 'Gnu C,' and other utilities that I'm not even certain are resident on my system, and have had *NO* experience using. (Although when I installed RH 8.0 I installed the development software packages as well.) 4. Nowhere can I find an ordered list of instructions that would help a relative newbie step through the process. (Why it is that people who draw 12 page, flow diagrams in their sleep and flawlessly write a million lines of highly structured programming code a day can't sit down and write organized, comprehensible installation instructions is way beyond me!) So, here are the $64,000 questions: 1. Has anyone out there in Linux-land ever done this sort of thing before? Specifically with Glibc? How many times? With any modicum of success? 2. If so, would you be willing to help talk me through the installation process and then through debugging the result if necessary? 3. What inducements would be required for this? For the record, but not a negotiable issue, the package I want to install is Corel's WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux (Just about the last version of WordPerfect written for Linux by Corel before Micro$oft paid them off so they'd get out of the business). Why this word processor instead of one of the others written expressly for Linux? Because every other word processor I've seen, whether for Linux, Window$, Mac or what have you, is either hopelessly brain damaged or even brain dead. Not one of them even comes close. The nearest rival, M$ Word is only a very distant second best and doesn't even run under Linux. Why am I using RH 8.0 instead of SUSe, Mandrake or something else? 1. Because that's what I currently have on my machine. 2. Because I like the look and feel of it. 3. Because it's free. 4. Because I've learned its architecture and a lot of its idiosyncrasies already and don't want to start at the bottom of yet *ANOTHER* learning curve with some other distro. 5. Because I'm obstinate, hard to get along with and inherently distrust "change" for the sake of "change" alone! (In the vast sweep of history, "new and improved" has only a minutely better probability of being better than the alternative, and usually not enough to justify the risks.) Me: "I keep trying and trying and trying." Wife: "Yes dear, you're very trying." :-) Peace, health, wisdom and wealth. Live long and prosper. Stanley A. Schultz Techno-geek Wannabe _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
