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Re: glibc version problem

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• Subject: [mg72511] Re: glibc version problem
• From: Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 05:20:35 -0500 (EST)
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xuelian.penn at gmail.com skrev:
> I also have trouble to install Mathematica 5.20 under Ubuntu 6.10,
> although I can install it under Ubuntu 6.06.1 successfully. The error
> massage in the InstallErrors file is
> [: 215: ==: unexpected operator
> 
> Does anyone know how to solve the problem?


I have mathematica 5.2 installed under ubuntu 6.10.

At every upstart, I see the error message mentioned, but that is no 
problem. I just ignore it (as I ignored it when it appeared in the 
installation), and everything seems to work well.

So, for what I have done, mathematica 5.2 seems to work well in ubuntu 6.10.

Someone claimed sound does not work, but I do not use sound, so I do not 
know about that.

/ johan

> 
> Thanks,
> Xuelian
> 
> Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>>> I've been having trouble installing Mathematica 4.2 under Linux (Ubuntu
>>> 6.10). It appears the problem is that I have glibc version 2.4 which is
>>> too new for Mathematica 4.2 to handle. I don't think I can easily
>>> downgrade my glibc because that will break all sorts of other software
>>> which is expecting version 2.4. Does anyone know what versions of glibc
>>> Mathematica 5.2 is compatible with? If it is compatible with glibc 2.4
>>> I'll probably just upgrade to Mathematica 5.2.
>> Mathematica does not expect to any version of glibc, neither glibc
>> itself. However, it's linked against libc.
>> I guess your problem is that Mathematica 4.2 is linked against libc5,
>> while glibc is providing libc6.
>> In this case you can safely install libc5, it must not conflict with
>> libc6. If Ubuntu does not ship one, you can try to borrow it from
>> Debian (http://packages.debian.org/stable/oldlibs/libc5).
>>
>> Answering your question: yes, Mathematica 5.2 is linked against libc6.
>> I have glibc 2.3.6, but I believe there would not be any problem with
>> glibc 2.4.
>