SAS on FC5

[Yuandan Zhang]

On 5/11/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


No, it not work. after export, it gets error -- don't know where to load
shared libraries.

I am not sure if this is right. but I get feeling that this SAS on FC5 jam
may have something to do with java???
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