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Re: What is libc.so.4?

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From: Michael Shields
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <475k7k$49h@news4.digex.net>,
Doug Linder <faust@access5.digex.net> wrote:
> I just installed Red Hat Commercial Linux v2.0.  In general, I like it a 
> lot.  But I keep getting this error whenever I try to run a lot of things:
> 
> "can't load library '/libc.so.4'
>     No such library."

Linux has two sorts of binaries: The old a.out binaries, which need
libc 4, and the new ELF binaries, which need libc 5.  Although the new
ELF binaries that came with your new Red Hat CD work fine, older a.out
binaries will break.

To fix this:

1. Complain to Red Hat for not including libc 4 even when the libc
maintainers specifically asked distributors to keep including it for
just this reason.

2. Get libc 4.5.9 from tsx-11 and install it, carefully, according to
the directions.
-- 
Shields.
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From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Subject: Re: What is libc.so.4?
Date: 1995/11/01
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