http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ i've had good luck with this guy's shell script on a CentOS6 system for getting glibc.so.6 extracted and squirreled into the right folder without breaking the rest of the system. It's the fix for Chrome, but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to opera or any other app. It's pulling an updated Fedora 17 lib. On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Jeffrey Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This link is created by the glibc-2.5 package. libc version 6 is the > same as GNU libc v2, and has been installed as the default libc on all > redhatish systems for over a decade. I think your installation problems > are somehow related to packaging problems, not to actual installed libc > versions. What exactly are you attempting to do? > > Jeff Anderson > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Larry Linder < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On Friday 01 November 2013 3:08 pm, Larry Linder wrote: >> > 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 >> >> More: >> /lib contains a link for libc.so.6 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 24 2013 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.5.so >> some where an application install created this link. >> The apps we want to use: >> Eagle 6.5 >> Opera 12.15 >> >> Larry Linder >> > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeffrey Anderson | [log in to unmask] > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | > Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 > Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204 >