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Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> A pity, because there is a lot of great applications that need 
> glibc-2.3.x.so to run. e.g. xine, ytree, xvideo, etc..

Most of those will probably run on glibc-2.1 if you compile
them on that foundation.

> Is there likely to be any such problem with installing the 
> equivalent package from Slackware 9.1 ?   Steven ?  

I've done it from Slackware 8.1, but not from 9.1.  I imagine
the package from 9.1 would probably work the same, but who
knows?  Until you actually try these things, you can't be sure.

Cheers,
Steven