What you can do sometimes is to make a soft link to the lib you have installed
in that directory
like ln -s libc?.so.? libc.so.4
where libc?.so.? is the closest oldest library that you can find.
Phil
Derek Balling wrote:
> I've got a RH4.2 system, and I don't see it there either. :( Even RH4.2
> had libc5 (libc.so.5.3.12 is installed currently, to be exact)
>
> I thought about that, but as you can it was quickly rejected. I'd need a
> REALLY old RH I think to go that route.
>
> Derek
>
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote:
>
> > Ive had things like tghis before, and fixed them . Probably not the right way
> > as someone will quickly tell me.
> > I get an old distro, I keep RH4.2 for this purpose, and find that needed lib
> > from it and put it in the new distro library path.
> > I used to keep all those old PHT monthly CDROMS just for the old libs sections
> > and do just this to get some of the older software to work.
> > Havnt needed to do it for a while, but unless someone has a better more
> > correct solution, you could give it a try. If it busts things, sinmply remove
> > it again!
> > Phil
> > Derek Balling wrote:
> >
> > > Our company has recently gone with Legato for its "corporate-wide" backup
> > > utility, which is not bad all things considered. It's a fairly nice piece
> > > of software, and I'm not terribly unhappy with it, EXCEPT...
> > >
> > > It doesn't like our RedHat 5.0 machines. Boxhill supplies a Linux client,
> > > EXCEPT it returns:
> > >
> > > [root@reagan linux]# ./nsrexecd
> > > ./nsrexecd: can't find library 'libc.so.4'
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? The company that makes Legato "emphatically does not
> > > support this platform", which cheeses me off, but we want to make this
> > > work because
> > >
> > > (a) The Powers That Be have already decided that Legato is the
> > > way, and all appropriate Holy Waters and Blessings have been
> > > spread over the software license, and more importantly
> > >
> > > (b) If we say "Linux doesn't work with that", then we can guarantee
> > > a long miserable hell of NT and Slowlaris machines because
> > > "those machines can be backed up at least via the corporate
> > > means and don't require independent backup solutions".
> > >
> > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > >
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