If you're on SL 5.9, you are SOL for contemporary software. The dependency
tree is just too large, especially for published binary packages.

If you can get the SRPM for opera, perhaps you can re-compile it on 5.9?


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Larry Linder <
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> Need advice:
> A number of our systems are still running SL 5.9 and a number of new
> applications require libc.so.6 when "yum localinstall" opera-12.15.rpm and
> a
> few others.
> One reason we have not upgraded to 6.4 is because of the gigabye ethernet
> driver issue.   It took us a while to fix the problem on a couple of new
> systems with a lot of good help from you all.   We just don't have enough
> time to update all systems that are running fine and heavily used.
>
> Is it possible to load libc.so.6 on a SL5.9 64 bit system and have it work
> and
> not destroy a working system.
> I think I know the answer but I have to ask anyway.
> A number of packages we have used, use the "configure" , "make",
> "makeinstall"
> and it works wonderfully.  We have been able to install ngspice and number
> of
> other engineering apps this way.
> The other problem is the most users in shop use KDE and KDE for SL6 is not
> usable by intelligent beings.   The systems with SL 6.4 use gnome desktop.
> Thank you for your help in the past.
> Larry Linder
>