🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

I just installed a newish version of slackware linux on my system 
(can't recall version numbers. Just this week from one of the sites)

I installed disks sets, A, X, and ntex (slackware compatible). These
are all fairly current versions (as far as I am aware).

ntex, and I would suspect most of my oldish software (chipmunk 
, and other circuit applications),requires the libc.so.4
libraries be present. 

Take the n-tex distribution...It requires libc.so.4, because it sais so
when I try to run it...("cannot find libc....."). The library version 
also need to have a minor version >=6...

Now to my surprise, the slackware distribution does
not supply this library but supplies the upgraded versions
libc.so.5 and so on. In order to fix this I grabbed the 
libc.so.4 libraries from one of the linux sites,
and attempted to install it manually, this did not work as the libraries
I had were of the wrong minor version. 
(4.3.3 for memory as that was all that was avaliable)

Maybe I missed out on it somehow, but my installation didn't complain,
and didn't say "you have a missing file". I may have got a 
dud disk, but then again?

My question is..

"What to I have to do get get this library onto my system, and, if most
of the old(?) software requires it (big assumption), why is it not
provided?"


Thanks in advance

Andrew