topic Re: source code in Operating System - Linux

source code

shyam singh bisht — Mon, 09 May 2005 01:38:15 GMT

Hi! all
I am new to linux & I need some help.
I have installed RedHat linux 8.0.

now when i downloaded the mozilla firefox for linux & tried to install it ,it gives the error 'glibc-2.3.5 required'.
I downloaded glibc-2.3.5 , now to install it i have to configure & make it.

please suggest how to configure & make this to upgrade the glibc.

any guide on installing softwares like this will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Shyam

Re: source code

Chakravarthi — Mon, 09 May 2005 02:20:07 GMT

hi shyam,

check the following link

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/512820/glibc.html

Re: source code

Alex Lavrov. — Mon, 09 May 2005 02:37:20 GMT

RedHat 8.0 is a very old version. I suggest you to download Fedora Core 3. You'll have different problems with different new applications, because the libraries are just too old on your box.

Here you can obtain it:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

Alex.

Re: source code

renarios — Mon, 09 May 2005 02:48:43 GMT

Hi Shyam,

Listen to Alex and forget the old Linux versions. Fedora Core 3 is the latest stable version ans Core 4 is in Beta. Mozilla is part of these distributions.
Also, my experience is that yum works better on Fedora.

Re: source code

Bejoy C Alias — Mon, 09 May 2005 04:51:22 GMT

If u downloaded the source code, you can install it using configure, make , make install commands.
First unzip or untar the source code to some directory , cd to that directory , issue the following commands .
1. ./configure
2. make
3. make install
this will install with glibc with default option . ( this procedure is mostly same for all the source code downloads , also there will be a "Readme" or INSTALL file in the extracted directory where u will get more information )
But i dont think that glibc.2.3.5 will get installed in redhat 8.0 . if u downloaded the rpm , it is sure that it will complain about some dependencies and install will fail.

Re: source code

Gopi Sekar — Mon, 09 May 2005 05:55:47 GMT

if for some reason u want to stick with RH 8.0 then download glibc source and do ./configure, make and make install after extracting the source.

but RH already dropped support for RH 8.0 and the best bet would be to use FC 3.0 which is free and contains latest versions of all greatest applications.

Re: source code

David Asgeirsson — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:09:42 GMT

Hi,

I have an old HP Pavilion with RH 8.0 installed on it, and I can still run the latest version of Firefox (1.03) without any trouble. I only have glibc 2.3.2-4.80.8 which was an RPM install for me, fixing a security hole. If you try to download Firefox (and Thunderbird!) from the mozilla.org website, it should automatically give you the correct version of the program to install. That might be faster and easier than upgrading the OS, especially if you have an old computer, and don't need newer libraries for anything.

- Dave

Re: source code

Ross Minkov — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:06:50 GMT

Shyam,

I just want to join those who said Time to Upgrade! Red Hat does not produce ANY patches for the numbered versions. From security standpoint you should upgrade ASAP.

Regards,
Ross

Re: source code

Girish Shetty — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:58:34 GMT

Hi all,

From where can I down load glibc source code?

Thanks
Girish

Re: source code

Stuart Browne — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:05:50 GMT

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ would be the home page.

Re: source code

shyam singh bisht — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:20:44 GMT

thanks all