Unable to install Bentley's Microstation 95 for Linux

Hi, I'm mainly a SUSE user, running 10.0 on my main machine and on my
server, and 10.3 on my company lapop. I started using SuSE back in the days
of release 6.2.

In those early days, I got a CD-ROM with 'Microstation 95 Academic for
Linux'.  Microstation is a CAD product from Bentley. They used to produce
releases for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Max and Linux. Today only for Windows, of
course...

I tried to install the CD on SuSE 6.x. From what I remember, I had the
install running, but got stuck on a missing library. Since then, I've
learned that I should've just linked the name of the needed lib to the
existing version in SuSE.



So, I tried to istall it on 10.0 a few weeks ago. No dice, couldn't even get
it to start installing. Allmost as if the executables of those times are no
longer compatible. Is that the case? Has there been a majer change in
executable code somewhere between 6.x and 10.x ? In 6.2, the kernel was
2.2.x or 2.1.x, can't be sure.

Any input welcome. For more details, just tell me which and how to produce
them. I'll post them.



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Rikishi 42 wrote:

> So, I tried to istall it on 10.0 a few weeks ago. No dice, couldn't even
get
> it to start installing. Allmost as if the executables of those times are
no
> longer compatible. Is that the case? Has there been a majer change in
> executable code somewhere between 6.x and 10.x ? In 6.2, the kernel was
> 2.2.x or 2.1.x, can't be sure.

1. Big differences between the used glibc versions
2. Big difference between the used gcc to compile the binaries

I'm not sure if you can get hold of comparability libraries that will give you 
something like glibc2.0/gcc2 binaries to work on a glibc2.5/gcc4 environment.
Even if you had that, you will then have troubles with other libraries, where 
you will have different major versions than needed by the old software, and 
symlinking will not help when there are differences in the API.

Without setting up an emulation running the old version of SuSe, you won't 
have much luck to get anything at all to happen with the CAD program.


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Rikishi 42 wrote:
> Hi, I'm mainly a SUSE user, running 10.0 on my main machine and on my
> server, and 10.3 on my company lapop. I started using SuSE back in the
days
> of release 6.2.
> 
> In those early days, I got a CD-ROM with 'Microstation 95 Academic for
> Linux'.  Microstation is a CAD product from Bentley. They used to produce
> releases for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Max and Linux. Today only for Windows, of
> course...
> 
> I tried to install the CD on SuSE 6.x. From what I remember, I had the
> install running, but got stuck on a missing library. Since then, I've
> learned that I should've just linked the name of the needed lib to the
> existing version in SuSE.
> 
> 
> 
> So, I tried to istall it on 10.0 a few weeks ago. No dice, couldn't even
get
> it to start installing. Allmost as if the executables of those times are
no
> longer compatible. Is that the case? Has there been a majer change in
> executable code somewhere between 6.x and 10.x ? In 6.2, the kernel was
> 2.2.x or 2.1.x, can't be sure.
> 
> Any input welcome. For more details, just tell me which and how to produce
> them. I'll post them.
> 
> 
> 

get the old libs
extract them to some directory
then create a wrapper script which utilises