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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Matrix Mole wrote:

> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > I think that is correct.  I also think someone in the group wrote in that
> > upgrading to 2.3.x caused them some problems.  Since it is difficult if
> > not impossible to downgrade again, is there some way you can first do this
> > on a test setup rather than your primary BL2 computer?
> 
> I wish I did have a test system to use as opposed to my primary BL system.
> Will have to wait until august when financial aid for school arrives
> before getting another computer though :)

Do you have some way to make another linux partition on your current 
computer?  A way to even add another hard drive if you can't make more 
partitions on the current one?  Any old computers lying around your place 
or your friends' places that they want to get rid of?  

> 
> > What do you need 2.3.2 for?
> 
> Well, with what Ive gathered, the problems I was having with that
> newsgroup software I was trying to use are known problems in some older
> versions of glibc. I know that it requires glibc.so seperate (due to
> errors I had prior to installing glibc.so from SW71). Unfortunately, I
> never heard anything back from any of the support locations for the
> software (author, yahoo group, newsgroups themselves). So I'm on my own on
> this one it would appear.
> 
> I'm also considering installing and using bittorrent for slack from SW91
> as well. I don't know about its library dependencies though, although I
> believe it requires python before I can use it (so something else I may
> have to install).

What does bittorrent do?

> 
> What kind of problems have been reported or have people had with the
> installation of a new glibc.so?

I had no trouble installing, it is just that I could not manage to 
uninstall to the point where I could compile again with the old glibc.  
Something somewhere got set wrong.   But someone I think had problems with 
glibc 2.3.x.