/lib/ld-linux.so.2

[Mike Schwartz]

> On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:35 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> >Hi Y'all,
> >
> >I'm trying to install filepro 5.7 on CentOS 6.0 64bit, and I'm getting
> >this error:
> >
> >./fpinstall/finish: /home/henry/fpinstall/inst/fp/dclerk:
> >/lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
> >
> >Has anyone seen this before ?
> 
> No, but then I haven't tried CentOS 6 yet as I generally any new major
> revisions originating from Red Hat until the sharp edges have been worn
> down a bit.
> 
> That library is part of the glibc-2.5 package on CentOS 5, a rather
critical piece
> of the system to say the least.  My SWAG is that FilePro has not been
built on
> either RHEL6 or CentOS 6.
> 
> As I think I said a while back on SCO->Linux migration, I would install
CentOS
> 5, and work from there.
> 
> Bill

     When I was installing Red Hat Enterprise version 6.1 a couple of months
ago, fPtech support told me, " Load in the 32 bit libraries.  They are not
loaded by default any longer in Red Hat."

    Per some instructions I found on the Redhat web site, I downloaded and
installed the Development Tools and Development libraries:

yum groupinstall Development Libraries 
yum groupinstall Development Tools

     That got me a little further along, but I still had some problems until
I installed:

'yum install libxml2.i686'

    filepro has been running on that server in production without any
problems for a couple of months now.

    As Bill said, there is always a price to pay for being on the (B)leeding
edge.  For example, I didn't pay any attention to the fact that I was
downloading and installing Red Hat 6.1 and not Redhat 6.0.  When I looked on
the Microlite web site, it said that Backup Edge had been tested on "version
6", so I just went ahead and naively installed it on RH 6.1.  Can't be much
difference between 6 and 6.1, right?  WRONG.  That was last April and
Microlite still hasn't released a Backup edge that will work with Red Hat
6.1.    

Mike Schwartz