[ILUG] getting redhat 9 stuff running on redhat 7.3

[John Allen]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:41, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:17:16AM +0100, John P. Looney mentioned:
> >  I've a package that's shipped binary only, and compiled for RedHat 9.
> >
> >  As you know, I'm a big fan of RPMs, but I'm not sure how to solve this
> > problem with packages. For instance, it's complaining about not having
> >     libstdc++.so.5
> >     libgcc_s.so.1
> >
> >  And most likely another brace of files too. Is there a neat way to get
> > newer libs on an already running system, without breaking it ?
>
>  I should expand; to date, my efforts have been in the direction of
> copying required libs into a folder, and running:
>
>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/rh9 /usr/local/bin/vendor_program
>
>  But, it's not quite working; pretty much everything segfaults. I'm gonna
> have to do a whole chroot thing, aren't I ?
>

No, just upgrade RH 7.2 to RH 9. Well thats what I'd do anyway.

> john

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