Dear Vikas, On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Vikas Upadhyay <> wrote:
> > Centos is the closest relative to rhel, not fedora. I suggest using > > centos3 and installing the app on it. > > > I guess RHEL 3 is kernel 2.4.X whereas RHEL 4 is 2.6.X. > Don't know how a binary from 2.4 will run "just like that" on 2.6; if you > have source you can definitely port it to 2.6. > So in this case Centos 3 would be the best alternative, as suggested by > Raj > (Shekhar). What the kernel version has to do with running a program? It is the libraries that matter while running any binary. Some posters here has already asked the OP to run ldd and find the library dependencies. > And coming back to your original question: > >So the question is, if a software (binary) works on a given distro, > >would it work on other distros too? If there are dependancies will we > >be able to figure them out without having access to the source? > ldd helps you in finding the shared library dependencies but what happens > to > the dependency on some other files whose location varies from ditro to > distro? This is the question just came to my mind and not sure whether > there > are some configuration files (or other files) whose location differ from > distro to distro and are used by some applications. So, anybody, any > pointers ? If you have a distro and your program which is LSB compliant you will not see much problems. > > Vikas HTH With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 +91-92113-61617 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
