On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Mark Goldstein
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Anton Aylward
wrote: Carlos E. R. said the following on 04/24/2010 07:23 AM:
On 2010-04-24 08:12, Mark Goldstein wrote:
... And when I tried this installer on 11.1/x86/KDE3 the installation failed saying GLIBC 2.10 or higher is needed. Probably it is possible to install GLIBC 2.10 without removing the previous version? There are a couple of repositories in build service with version 2.10... I'll probably try later, but I'm afraid glibc + h-files will probably replace existing ones.
I understand that replacing glibc is a call for disaster.
Indeed. Even a parallel install - rather than a replacement - and fiddling with LD_LIBRARY_PATH is going to be fraught with complications. ... Carlos, Anton, Thanks for warning. I'll stay with the older calibre version that works.
In the meantime I tried binary installation on 11.2 and as John and Richard said, it installed easily and is working fine. One thing that surprises me is how it worked on Stan's 11.1 without glibc 2.10. Is it possible that 64-bit version has different dependencies than 32-bit one? Hard to believe. Need to look into installation program to see if they check glibc version for 64-bit architecture.
Just from curiosity I've checked how this binary installer works. It downloads different tar files for 32- and 64-bit architectures. After that there is no specific check for GLIBC version. So the only explanation I might think of is that 64-bit version is linked against older version of glibc than the 32-bits one (there are many shared libraries in this archive). BTW, if they are providing more or less universal binary version, why not to include statically-linked version (as, for example, skype does)? Also, for some reason the binary installer could not download tar file on my 11.0 system. Probably python version is too old there? Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org