[SOLVED] Install of Catalyst requirements

Pinonoir · 06-15-2014, 07:36 PM

I had installed the Catalyst driver before, but noticed poor performance OOB. Upon finally reading the system requirements (silly me), I noticed that some packages required for optimal performance are in the current branch. If I grab some individual packages from current, stay in stable, and install those packages with installpkg, would it cause some instability?

ReaperX7 · 06-15-2014, 08:20 PM

What packages?

Pinonoir · 06-15-2014, 08:26 PM

from /var/log/packages-
glibc-2.17_multilib-x86_64-7alien
glibc-i18n-2.17_multilib-x86_64-7alien
glibc-profile-2.17_multilib-x86_64-7alien
glibc-solibs-2.17_multilib-x86_64-7alien
glibc-zoneinfo-2013d_multilib-noarch-7alien

System requirements
glibc version 2.2 or 2.3

Just wondering what I can do.

ReaperX7 · 06-15-2014, 10:55 PM

Glibc comes standard with Slackware.

Pinonoir · 06-15-2014, 11:02 PM

Ah, I see.

Didier Spaier · 06-16-2014, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pinonoir

If I grab some individual packages from current, stay in stable, and install those packages with installpkg, would it cause some instability?

It could:

Never install a package intended for -current in a stable release. This can create instabilities or break your system. What *could* help in some cases (but could also break some other stuff if it's a core component of the system) is rebuilding a package intended for your stable version using the build material provided in the source/directory of the installation media, but with an upgraded source tarball and setting the VERSION parameter accordingly in or when running the SlackBuild.
If you search for the glibc package here, you will see that the glibc versions are 2.17 and 2.19 for -14.1 and -current respectively. Both are fairly recent so it is highly improbable that upgrading will give you any benefit, futhermore glibc *is* a core component of the system, that's another reason not to try.