[ale] Back-compatible libs question

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, John Mills wrote:

> ALErs -
> 
> I have some apps which require the old 'libc.so.5' to run, and there is a
> back-compatible library installed on my RH6.2 installation which is:
>   /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.3.12
> 
> Is there such a beast I could install on a RH7.2 box for which the native
> libc is:
>   /lib/libc.so.6 -> /lib/libc-2.2.4.so ?

Red Hat doesn't ship libc5-compat RPMs any more, but you can install the old 
ones with a fair amount of work, or find updated ones which have been 
re-built by third parties to install on RH 7.x

I don't have the URLs off-hand, but google / rpmfind should

later,
chris


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