Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
>
> > I just received an email from a person who is using the German version
> > of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a
> > difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to
> > upgrade to glibc2.
> >
> > If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0,
> > please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be
> > prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to
> > 5.3.
>
> Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is
> the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is
> based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Umm. Doesn't work then. I had to do major mucking about to get
StarOffice to work.
See my previous postings. To sum up (again, but for your benefit as I'm
sure SuSE would like to get this sorted out):
StarOffice installer complained at glibc2 not being installed. I tried
installing those libraries it listed as being wrong or missing into /lib
(where there were existing versions) - their own installation
instructions for this don't work - the automated one relies on a command
"gldrinst" which doesn't appear to exist on SuSE, and their instructions
for doing it manually crash the system (there's a point at which there
is no libc at all and then you can't issue any useful commands
whatsoever, you just have to wait for the disks to sync (hopefully) and
reboot onto a rescue disk).
I finally got it working by installing their versions of ld-linux.so.2
(a link to their ld-linux-2.0.7.so) and libc.so.6 (a link to their
libc-2.0.7.so). I initially tried installing/updating the other
libraries listed, but they caused major failures with various other
stuff running under SuSE including NFS and PostGres - I can't remember
the rest, but the incompatibility is with at least two of those
libraries. I didn't test exhaustively which broke what (although
reverting libutil.so.1 allowed KDM to work again) but rather just
reverted the lot to get my working system back. :-)
I'm quite prepared to believe that my problems are all down to my having
initially installed 6.0 beta and then attempted via YAST to upgrade it
to 6.0 when that came out. To which end I'm currently mirroring the 6.0
distribution here in order to blast the installation and start with a
fresh 6.0.
--
Rachel
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