On 2014-02-22 00:20 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote:
> I have downloaded some proprietary software that I want to install onto a
> 64-bit Debian machine. The software is written for 64-bit linux, but the
> kernel version reported, for example, by uname (and perhaps by some system
> call that the compiled software uses) is not in a format that the software
> expects.
>
> ---BEGIN QUOTE FROM VENDOR---
> Its not that
> 3.12-1-amd64
> isn't supported per se. But when [the software], or the makefiles, parse
> the string
> 3.12-1-amd64
> they don't get the expected result. If the uname -r were the string
> 3.12.9-1
> then parsing it would yield the expected result.
> ---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR---
>
> Is the reported kernel-version string, "3.12-1-amd64", something that I
> could change by compiling a custom kernel?
You could do that, but I would first try to run the software under
"setarch x86_64 --uname-2.6" which should let it see a kernel version of
2.6.52-1-amd64.
Cheers,
Sven
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