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:
More: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
/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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