David Mitchell,

I agree the centos 6 end-of-life date of 2020 indicates we should consider
continued support. However, that would take non-trivial effort and our
resources are limited. The new JE uses features in newer linux releases and
supporting both centos 6 and 7 would require us to provide separate release
packages.

A search on this issue shows it is an increasingly common problem for
centos 6 users. You might be forced to upgrade to 7 before the end-of-life
for other reasons.

One suggested solution is to install and run the new glibc version
alongside the older one. I have no idea if this is safe or makes any sense.
If you want to run 805 on that machine and don't want to update the centos
version then you could investigate this. A snippet from a search:

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To install glibc 2.14 in parallel, add the configure prefix:

tar zxvf glibc-2.14.tar.gz
cd glibc-2.14
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14
make -j4
make install

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Summary of the 4 options:

1. upgrade to centos 7

2. install glibc-2.14 in parallel - if this works, please let the forum know

3. build from jsource

4. run 804 on that machine
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