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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: Re: [Q]Upgrading libc.so.
- Message-ID: <marcf.725558669@yorku.ca>
- Keywords: libc.so linux Library
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- Organization: York University
- References: <KIRSCH.30.725552731@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:04:29 GMT
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- KIRSCH@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Kirsch) writes:
-
- >Hello Linux Fans!
- >Working with Linux 0.99p1 is great pleasure!
-
- >1.Upgrading libc.so (How to do really?)
- >To maximize functionality I got libc.so.4.2 per ftp. But ...
- >Upgrading from libc.so.4.1 to 4.2 isn't that easy. (The numbers apply to the
- >actual situation, but I ask for the principal algorithm)
- >My binaries (which are from SLS 0.98p1 distribution) look for libc.so.4 (not
- >trailing zero!) - so I had made a symbolic link
- >libc.so.4 -> libc.so.4.1
- >In order to make a new link, I removed the old one and uups ... I could not
- >do anything else. Of course! I installed a small system by usage of a1 and
- >a2 floppies of the SLS distribution, mounted my normal root-partition,
- >installed the new link and rebooted from the normal root.
- >My question is: Have I overseen some simpler possibility of procedure?
-
- But of course...why not just do 'ln -fs libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4'? :)
-
- Marc
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