OT - legacy distros

[Ed Greshko]

Michael Scully wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> 	I support one older site with a Caldera Linux installation.  I need
> to add a JRE for some Java, but I have dependency issues - 5 to be exact.
> One of them is a glibc that I suspect is a show stopper.  But as you know,
> Caldera is the dreaded SCO Group, and they have dropped any availability of
> Linux code from their website.
> 
> 	I'm not their hardware and O/S vendor, and I can't quickly make the
> switch on this older hardware to RHEL, which would be my preference.  So I
> was hoping to find these RPM's elsewhere.  This is a 2.2.14 kernel.  My
> dependencies are:
> 
>         glibc >= 2.1.2-11 is needed by j2re-1.4.2_08-fcs
>         sh-utils >= 2.0-1 is needed by j2re-1.4.2_08-fcs
>         fileutils >= 4.0-8 is needed by j2re-1.4.2_08-fcs
>         gawk >= 3.0.4-1 is needed by j2re-1.4.2_08-fcs
>         textutils >= 2.0-2 is needed by j2re-1.4.2_08-fcs
> 
> Does anyone know the best way to find them?  I am also not sure of the exact
> file name syntax to look for these packages.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Scully
> 

http://rpmfind.net/  may be of help to you.

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