On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in infinite wisdom Anoop John spoke thus On 04/11/2008 10:33 AM: > > I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up > > their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. > > Centos is the closest relative to rhel, not fedora. I suggest using > centos3 and installing the app on it. I guess RHEL 3 is kernel 2.4.X whereas RHEL 4 is 2.6.X. Don't know how a binary from 2.4 will run "just like that" on 2.6; if you have source you can definitely port it to 2.6. So in this case Centos 3 would be the best alternative, as suggested by Raj (Shekhar). And coming back to your original question: >So the question is, if a software (binary) works on a given distro, >would it work on other distros too? If there are dependancies will we >be able to figure them out without having access to the source? ldd helps you in finding the shared library dependencies but what happens to the dependency on some other files whose location varies from ditro to distro? This is the question just came to my mind and not sure whether there are some configuration files (or other files) whose location differ from distro to distro and are used by some applications. So, anybody, any pointers ? Vikas _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
