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I am RedHat 6 Newbie..install is good and gnome works fine ....PII400 128MB
RAM Voodoo3 3000

I have used distributed.net in windows and would like to run in Linux

How do you know which version I should Install?
            [glibc? libc?  what is the difference?]
Is there a RPM version?

Following instructions for Voodoo3 I came across a line which wanted you to
check the version of glib...its 2.1....so I figured I try to download the
glibc version of RC5....I created a folder in the root directory called
/install exploded it and tried to install, however I get a error.....I
couldnt find any info on www.linuxnewbie.com nor distributed.net so I am
posting here.

What folder should I put downloads in?

Thank you for your time
Quinn

: I am RedHat 6 Newbie..install is good and gnome works fine ....PII400 128MB
: RAM Voodoo3 3000
:
: I have used distributed.net in windows and would like to run in Linux
:
:
: How do you know which version I should Install?
:             [glibc? libc?  what is the difference?]
: Is there a RPM version?
:
:
: Following instructions for Voodoo3 I came across a line which wanted you to
: check the version of glib...its 2.1....so I figured I try to download the
: glibc version of RC5....I created a folder in the root directory called
: /install exploded it and tried to install, however I get a error.....I
: couldnt find any info on www.linuxnewbie.com nor distributed.net so I am
: posting here.
:
: What folder should I put downloads in?

You want the glibc version: rc5des-linux-x86-mt-glibc2.tar.gz is the one I
got.

As for where to put it, I created a new user "rc5", and just put it in
/home/rc5.  It doesn't matter, really, where it goes.

        Stu

Quote:> You want the glibc version: rc5des-linux-x86-mt-glibc2.tar.gz is the one I
> got.

Well, it's good that you got the ``mt" in there - that stands for
muiltithreaded.  But for the record, all the distributed.net clients are
statically linked.  Therefore, it doesn't matter if you download libc5,
glibc2, or glibc2.1.  Unfortunately this is a bad distributed.net
policy, and will only serve to confuse newbies.  Don't get into the
habit of blindly downloading binaries!  It will work from
distributed.net, but that's about it - everywhere else, you should match
the libc versions.

My $0.02,
Ross Vandgegrift