Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 39809
libc5 missing in RH 7.1
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) Description of problem: Is libc5 missing on RHAT 7.1? I tried to run Applixware 4.4.1 (linked against libc.so.1) but it did not start (No such file or directory, because of missing ld.so.1) A temporary solution was to install the RPM "libc-5.." of RHAT 6.2. Where is libc5 (libc.so.1) for RHAT 7.1? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install RH 7.1 2. run applix 4.4.1 3. Actual Results: shell% ./applix No such file or directory Expected Results: start of application Additional info: "No such file or ...": I was in the right directory, but "ld.so.1" was not found and so the application could not be startet.
libc 5 is not included in 7.0 and above on purpose. We no longer support the libc 5 based distributions (4.x and earlier) and including a libc 5 in the distribution means we need to support it (take care of security fixes etc). If you really need to run libc 5 applications, the method you used is the recommended one, the packages from 6.2 should install into 7.x systems without problems.
I can't get this method to work with the even older Applix that I have though. This one identifies itself as Applixware version 4.37 (807.141.90). I installed ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm and libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm from Red Hat 6.2 on my Red Hat 7.1 system to avoid the no such file message, but when I try to run applix after that it segfaults. This is both with the applix I already had installed in RH6.2 days, and if I reinstall it from the CD. This Applix is published by Red Hat Software and on the box it says that it requires linux 1.2.13 "or better", libc 5.2.18 "or better", libm 5.0.5 or better and X11R6 so it seems like you have told me that it should work. :-)