On Monday 20 December 2004 18:28, William T. Wright wrote:
> I just upgraded to SuSE 9.0 from my 1999-vintage Caldera eDesktop,
> and most of the transition has been very smooth. The exception is
> running Quattro Pro. Seems that Corel set everything up to run with
> glibc 2.0 or 2.1, and SuSE 9.0 is using 2.3. I installed the font
> server from the RPMs and my package manager says all is well with
> them. I suspect that the Fonttastic font server doesn't work with the
> newest flavor glibc. The error message says that it is unable to add
> Fonttastic font server to the font path. The font server is not
> installed.
>
> I still have the glibc 2.1 RPMs that came with the Caldera distro.
> Could I go ahead and install the older glibc 2.1 to run in parallel?
> I remember something about doing this with qt so I could run both KDE
> 1 and 2.2 on the same box.
William,
I have heard of other people doing that and it seems to work. Best to
put them in a separate folder and point your app to it. Otherwise the
other apps are going to get confused. I would also go get the SuSE
rpm's from the SuSE repository.
Bob S.
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