Am 24.06.23 um 19:33 schrieb J Leslie Turriff:
I'm starting to run into software that requires versions of glibc higher than 2.31, which is the highest available on Leap. I see that Tumbleweed has 2.37 available, but I suspect that installing that on Leap might be ... dangerous? or not?
Do not do that. Glibc is special. It is the only Linux component you should *NOT* meddle with. Chances that you turn your box into a brick are high, requiring to repair via USB stick and such. You have basically following options: - look for software compiled for an older glibc, usually the requirement of a newer glibc comes from the compile process and not from the software itself. Or compile it yourself. - use some container variant of your software, if it exists (flatpak, ...). - install TW as an additional OS on your box. - install some minimalistic OS environment (e.g. of TW) into a chroot environment and run your software from there (works fine, but is some tough work to get it running) Cheers, Manfred
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)