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Re: applications requiring libc.so.6
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Vladimir Mosgalin <[log in to unmask]>
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Vladimir Mosgalin <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 2 Nov 2013 23:15:54 +0400
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Hi Nico Kadel-Garcia!

 On 2013.11.02 at 13:16:11 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote next:

> 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?

opera isn't free software or even open source. Especially opera 12 which
was built on proprietary Presto engine which they don't plan to open
anytime soon (versions after that are based on chromium, but still
closed source, just like google chrome).

-- 

Vladimir

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