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? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
* J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com> [06-24-23 13:36]:
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 237 available, but I suspect that installing that on Leap might be ... dangerous? or not?
installing a "leap" package should not. installing a tumbleweed package will void your "leap" warrantee. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc
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)
On 2023-06-24 12:33:42 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
| 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? | |Leslie |-- |Platform: Linux |Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
Thanks Patrick, Manfred. I was pretty sure that's what the answer would be. Now I'll have to learn a little bit about cmake, which is what the source package uses for builds. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
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