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
>>
>
>
>
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