On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Yuandan Zhang wrote: > > > Hi, Has anyone sucessfully installed SAS 8.1 or SAS 9.1 on FC5? I have > > difficulty to install SAS 8.1. > > > The company support said > > > > "I have checked our system requirements for Linux and unfortunately your > > operating system is not compatible with SAS. > > That just about sums it up, doesn't it? > > > Software Requirements > > > > Operating System > > > > Red Hat Linux 7.1 > > Important: Most other distributions of Linux will not work. > > SAS relies on the following operating system components: > > ?? Linux kernel 2.4.x > > FC5 is a 2.6 kernel. > > > ?? GNU libc 2.2.x (with LDT threads) > > Standard is now POSIX treads I believe... > > > Installations that include different levels of the kernel and libc may > > be compatible with SAS software, > > but they have not been tested. " > > Anyway, you can try one thing: > > First, make sure you that you have all that compatibility packages > installed. Next, prior to trying to run SAS do an > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 > > Good luck. You're going to need it. :-) The LD_ASSUME_KERNEL trick might have worked in FC4, which still had support for the deprecated Linuxthreads, but they're gone completely in FC5 and I don't believe this will make any difference. Paul. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
