What Linux Distributions does the vendor of your application support? -Connie Sieh On 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. > > > > --=20 > Stephen J Smoogen. > =93The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoida= > nce.=94 > Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. > "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" > =97 Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines >