On Sunday 04 July 2004 15.21, David Johanson wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 04 July 2004 02.30, Stanley Long wrote:
One box here still uses older SuSE just for Applixware Office Suite. For non-OSS binary-only apps that depend on old libraries, is there a safe way to add the old libraries back in with links so those apps can still be used, even if just for data recovery/conversion?
Generally speaking, you can copy the libraries you need into a directory, and put that directory into the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH when you run the program.
It's usually also possible to install them "properly" alongside the newer versions. SuSE usually has some sort of "compat" package with older libraries that does this
O.K., I could use a little more advice here to see if I can get this suite going under 9.0
I know I need the older libraries libc-5.3.12-31 and id.so-1.9.5-11 or so I'm advised by a letter in response to a Linux Journal article entitled "Finally, Free Fix to Filtrix for WordPerfect 8 Linux Users"
Try installing the package shlibs5. It has libc.so.5.4.46 and ld.so.1.9.9 (there's no such thing as id.so). They *should* work
That being all I need, do I understand correctly that I simple put them in their own folder and make it know in the path? If so, exactly how do I place that variable in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Sorry to be so dense.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/directory then run the program *in the same shell as you ran the above export* You can also put that export line in your .bashrc