On Sunday 04 February 2001 12:54, you wrote:
> I am trying to install IBM's data visualisation
> package on 7.2
I've had to do that before with packages like Star Office. You can have
multiple glibc's, but what you'll want to do is to extract the libc* and
libm* files out of the older glibc, as well as other necessary files (like
libcdb) and place them all in a special directory (the point is that you
don't have two glibc's in /lib). Most software will use the glibc that's in
/lib.
I wouldn't recommend having both glibc RPMs installed - they would conflict.
Instead, obtain a tar.gz of the glibc you need, and just extract the
libraries you need out of it.
To get the other software to use the different glibc, you can use the
environment variable "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", pointing it to the location of the
other glibc. Then you should be able to run the software. Sometimes, a shell
wrapper is a good idea - then you can set the appropriate variables, such as
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then invoke the executable. (Remember that the
environment is special to that process and won't affect other things running
on the system.)
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