I've read all the responses here, and what you did (Run older version of redhat).
I am forced to run redhat 6 distributions for similar reasons. However I prefer running the system in a more modern environment. THe compromise I make (If it can be done) is to install the older distro. Then use a newer distro and chroot to the root of the old one. Mike On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 16:45, Stanley A. Schultz wrote: > 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 -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
