jordan muscott wrote: > Everything written in 'C' depends on glibc, so that pretty much means > your whole operating system :=) . glibc is the standard C library. uhh yeah... i know someone who did the equivalent of erasing glibc on a proprietary unix machine... whoops! >Are > you sure all these apps actually 'need' glibc 2.3, or are the binary > versions that are are trying to install just compiled against 2.3? If > the later is the case, then you need to compile them yourself. could be... i'll have to go back and check... > hope this helps, Jordan. thanx! m~ > -- iriXx www.iriXx.org copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom? info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.copyleftmedia.org.uk _ ( ) ascii ribbon against html email X / \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp *** stopping make sense ***