Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Umm. Doesn't work then. I had to do major mucking about to get StarOffice to work. See my previous postings. To sum up (again, but for your benefit as I'm sure SuSE would like to get this sorted out): StarOffice installer complained at glibc2 not being installed. I tried installing those libraries it listed as being wrong or missing into /lib (where there were existing versions) - their own installation instructions for this don't work - the automated one relies on a command "gldrinst" which doesn't appear to exist on SuSE, and their instructions for doing it manually crash the system (there's a point at which there is no libc at all and then you can't issue any useful commands whatsoever, you just have to wait for the disks to sync (hopefully) and reboot onto a rescue disk). I finally got it working by installing their versions of ld-linux.so.2 (a link to their ld-linux-2.0.7.so) and libc.so.6 (a link to their libc-2.0.7.so). I initially tried installing/updating the other libraries listed, but they caused major failures with various other stuff running under SuSE including NFS and PostGres - I can't remember the rest, but the incompatibility is with at least two of those libraries. I didn't test exhaustively which broke what (although reverting libutil.so.1 allowed KDM to work again) but rather just reverted the lot to get my working system back. :-) I'm quite prepared to believe that my problems are all down to my having initially installed 6.0 beta and then attempted via YAST to upgrade it to 6.0 when that came out. To which end I'm currently mirroring the 6.0 distribution here in order to blast the installation and start with a fresh 6.0. -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>