Hi Rachel, I installed the libc6 version without a glitch. There is a "how-to" on the web-site, and it tells you that you need to download a small C library first, but then follow the glibc installation from CD002 - from within YaST. This worked fine for me, but you could also install it as per the CD booklet instructions for Red-Hat. Here's the URL to the relevant Support Database page: <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/applix_suse60.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/applix_suse60.html</A">http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/applix_suse60.html</A</A>> HTH, Mike.

---------- From: Rachel Greenham[SMTP:rachel@epinet.co.uk] Sent: 01 March 1999 13:05 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SuSE Linux] ApplixWare installation glitch

Well actually, when I just let it do its stuff, it worked fine...

I bought ApplixWare for Linux this weekend and went to install it.

Now, I've got SuSE 6.0 installed which is apparently libc6 (glibc). So I was a bit surprised to discover Applix trying to install its libc5 version when there's a libc6 version just sitting there.

It turns out that one of its criteria for determining that this is a libc6 system, is to look for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8. This doesn't exist in SuSE 6.0 - it has libstdc++ 2.7 and libstdc++ 2.9, but not 2.8. First I tried to just create a symlink from version 2.9 to version 2.8, and Applix installed the libc6 version, but failed to work due to unresolved symbols. Then I tried to find a libstdc++ 2.8, but found that very difficult, finally found sources to 2.8.1 and 2.8.1.1 but they failed to make (compiler errors, looks like errors in the source code). This of course might be why SuSE doesn't include them :-)

But anyway, I reverted and just let it install the libc5 version and it works fine, but it would be nice to be able to know I could install libc6 software.

It would be even nicer if Applix didn't depend upon internal library symbols so one could use it with newer versions of the libraries it uses... I'll be moaning to them about this. :-)

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