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