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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

The latest Opera 7.x is available for Redhat 7, which I think is the same 
kernel as BL2 but uses glibc2.2 - is this right?

If I were to upgrade my libraries as below, does that mean that if I 
compile programs on the computer with the newer libraries they will not 
run on BL2 with the older libraries?  If so, I want to finish lynx first 
so everyone can use it.  


On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > What did you have to install (libraries?) to get Opera 7.21 
> > to work?

> I can't speak for Opera 7.21 (never tried it), but 
> recent binaries often specify glibc 2.2 or better 
> (BL2 has 2.1).  Some even require 2.3.  
> 
> I've installed glibc 2.2 on my own system (using two 
> Slackware 8.1 packages) in order to run Firebird 0.5 
> and xpdf 1.01.  It went very smoothly:
> ----------------------------------------
> installpkg glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i386-2.tgz
> installpkg cxxlibs-6.2.1-i386-1.tgz
> ----------------------------------------

I bet these will be a long download.

Does the newer xpdf run any faster than the older one in graphical mode?  
I found that it took 5 sec/page to display, or 10 sec/page to magnify and 
display, on a P133.  DOS ghostscript on a 486 takes only 2 sec per page 
even using the psview frontend program.  


> If you need glibc 2.3, you could probably do the same 
> thing with the equivalent Slackware 9 packages.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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