4 Jul
2004
4 Jul
'04
00:26
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