On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Andrew Stallard wrote:

> Now, I am attempting to install an extractor for .rar files. When I
> downloaded and unpacked the tarball, I tried to execute the file:

It is easier to get "outside" software from one of the software 
repositories that contain software built for RHEL/SL/Centos such as DAG.
We provide a yum config entry for the dag repository to make this even 
easier.  To install rar from dag do

 	yum --enablerepo=dag install rar

-connie sieh


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> ./rar
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> What happened is that I got this error:
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> ./rar: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./rar)
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> Now, I can never understand how to cope with these GLIBC errors since the=
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> files appear to be on my machine. Did anybody else have similar issues wi=
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> the .rar extractor, and in general, how to deal with the glibc errors whe=
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> they don't seem to make any sense.=20
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> Thank You for Responding:
>
> Andrew Stallard
>