Re: SAS on FC5

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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



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