What Linux Distributions does the vendor of your application support?

-Connie Sieh
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Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Salvador Aguinaga
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Thank you Jon & Stephen:
>>
>> The app that I downloaded is available as a binary because the sour=
> ce code
>> is proprietary.=A0 I might be able to ask the owner to rebuild it f=
> or me using
>> glibc v2.5
>>
>> but if that's not doable, I'd like to attempt the suggestion at the=
> bottom
>> and see if I can run the the app by pointing (correct me if i'm wro=
> ng) the
>> glibc (/lib/libc.so.6) to the older version.
>
> Ugh that usually does not work in any sense. What I have done for
> immediate needs is to build a virtual machine with an OS version that
> the application is meant to work on. For a similar RPM environment I
> would go with Fedora 13. Otherwise I would look at using the RHEL-6
> beta and seeing if that allows you to get it working.
>
>
>
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