Re: Installing old libc

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

Antony Stace <antony@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

>  Hi
> I have a program(An old quake :) ) that says it needs an old libm, 

> libm.so.5

> If I install a rpm package with this file in it, will it remove my
> current libm?

Under any reasonable circumstances, no.

> I had a look at the current libm library and it is symbolic link
> to /lib/libm-2.1.3.so , so I made a link from this to lib.so.5.

As the other Steve wrote, don't do this.

> But still no go :(.  How can I work out which rpm package has the
> libm.so.5 file in it

Beyond guessing, I don't know.  We call it `libc5-compat'.