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? On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Larry Linder < [log in to unmask]> 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 >