Will Sage 4.8 run on Scientific Linux 5.4?

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rvau...@gmail.com

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Apr 10, 2012, 2:15:40 PM4/10/12
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Sage 4.3.4 runs fine on SL 5.4.

Sage 4.8 complains:
(/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found ).

-Richard Vaughn

Dima Pasechnik

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Apr 11, 2012, 10:53:59 PM4/11/12
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On 2012-04-10, rvau...@gmail.com <rvau...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sage 4.3.4 runs fine on SL 5.4.

5.4 is a 2.5 years old. The lastest is 6.2.
http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/

Sage is not tested on SL (and indeed it would be next to impossible
task to do this for every Linux distro that went live in the past year,
leave alone 2.5 years!)

Could you upgrade?
It's likely to fix the GLIBC issue that you report.

Dmitrii

David Kirkby

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Apr 12, 2012, 4:25:10 AM4/12/12
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As Dima suggested, you are using an old version, but the fact you say
it working on a later version, suggested you might have reasons not to
upgrade.

When does the error occur - post a log file, or at least a relevenat
part of one.

Not everyone can upgrade software whenever they like. I know of
companies running 10+ year old operating systems, simply because they
have millions of pounds in development time invested in systems, and
if its working, there is no need to fix it. No IT person is going to
risk an upgrade, which could cost the company millions if it goes
wrong, when a system is currently working well.

In the commerical evenironment, there is not the desire to upgrade as
quickly as universites and indviduals do.

Did you get this problem building from source, or from a binary you
downloaded? A build from source is far more likely to work.

If you Google the error message, there are lots of links about it.

Dave

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