How do I get LinuxThreads

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What I would do, is this: backup your files and try installing glibc-2.3
there's no real harm in trying and it will probably work. I haven't tried this myself, so respond back if it works

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Regards,
David Bruk

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From: "Santanu Chatterjee" <thisissantanu at gmail.com>
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> | Raphael Morcha:
> | libpthread is the GNU threading package you might need to support the
> | software that links [uses] against libpthread.
> |
> | sudo apt-get install libpthread20 libpthread-dev
> 
> I tried your suggestion. But that did not solve the problem.
> As Martens Bram suggested, I too feel that this depends on the
> glibc package. After some googling, I figured that linuxthreads
> support is provided by glibc (if it is compiled with that support),
> and as far as I understand, linuxthreads support is available only
> in version 2.3.x or below of glibc.
> 
> |  Martens Bram:
> |  IIRC this depends on the glibc package installed.  Perhaps you can try
> |  to install a different variant (-i686 vs -i386)?
> 
> Yes, you are right. But the problem is, as I mentioned above,
> glibc 2.3.x or below supports linuxthreads. However, Ubuntu
> Feisty (maybe Edgy, too) uses glibc 2.5. So, no linuxthreads support.
> Now, Debian Etch uses glibc 2.3. So I thought that the application
> might run there, and sure enough, it did run on Etch. Maybe it will
> run under Dapper too.
> 
> So, my problem boils down to this:
> I have glibc-2.5 based system. On this system, how do I install
> glibc-2.3 and make it available to certain software (that uses
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 to use linuxthreads instead of NPTL)
> _without_ breaking my system.
> (I could probably add the Debian Etch repository to my sources.list
> file, and try installing glibc-2.3, but I am pretty sure that would
> break my system. So I did not try that... yet)
> 
> Any suggestions about how do I achieve this?
> 
> Regards,
> Santanu
> 
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