Re: gfortran on old machines

Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is this glibc available as a single (zipped) file like gfortran is? Is
there any website from which I can download it? I tried googling but all
I could find is .rpm and .deb files. Since I do not have root access on
this machine, the .rpm files are not very useful.

You can extract the files from the file foo.deb file by doing

ar xv foo.deb

This will usually create three files named

debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz

data.tar.gz contains the actual data. Extract it using

zcat data.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Or talk to your sysadmin to install more up-to-date libraries :-)

Thomas
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