May I use my _private_ libraries ?

[sormariano]

Hello to everybody. I've a particular request to submit to you.
I'm using (at my office) a Linux machine (RHEL 4) on which I've some costraint in installing new software.
For example I can't install newer glibc or some other libraries because we are forced to use some particular versions.
I'd like to know if its' possible something like this:
if the application I want to install (e.g Pidgin) requires the libc.so.6 and I haven't it installed, I want to be able to install the libc.so.6 on a personal directory (e.g. /home/sormariano/lib ) without modifying the global installation and to let Pidgin to see my /home/sormariano/lib/libc.so.6 (maybe after having set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the right way).

Could I do this ?

Thank oyu in advance.

[bob]

This might help. I haven't seen anything about Fedora7 yet, but it should be similar. http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages

[Dies]

Might be easier to use something like

http://klik.atekon.de/

although if they don't have what you want then......

[sormariano]

Originally Posted by Dies

Might be easier to use something like

http://klik.atekon.de/

although if they don't have what you want then......

Ok! Really interesting.
klik can launch gaim (now called pidgin).
I've tried it ... but it hasn't all the protocols availables.

[sormariano]

Originally Posted by bob

This might help. I haven't seen anything about Fedora7 yet, but it should be similar. http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages

But if I'm understanding well this method allow to me to use a repo that comes from a disk image instead of using the internet connection.

What I need is to have my Linux box untouched and to able to use my favourite programs (that I use at home).

Someone has suggested to me to build programs from tar and with statically linked libraries.
It needs a big amount of _self control_ but it could be a nice solution.