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. :-) Ed -- To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco
