is libc5 available?

Felipe Figueiredo philsf at ufrj.br
Fri Jul 28 20:38:51 UTC 2006


Le Friday 28 July 2006 17:26, Dwayne Rightler a écrit :
> On Friday 28 July 2006 16:18, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an onld non-free bin-only app which needs libc5.
> >
> > I can't seem to find a package with it. Is there a way to install it
> > (without breaking my installation, of course)?

> You could go here and grab the old Debian package for libc5, extract the
> files into a safe place (/usr/local/lib/libc5) and add that to
> your /etc/ld.so.conf... perhaps.  I'm just speaking off the top of my head,
> it may not work, and I haven't tested.


I'll have to tweak the links, otherwise it will compete with my default libc, 
am I correct? 

Is there a safe way to test this idea?

regards
FF




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