[p4] Which Perforce to Download

[John Marshall]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:21:04AM -0800, Ken Wilson wrote:
> I am looking at installing Perforce on a machine running Linux Mandrake 8.1.
> I am unable to find a specific reference to this flavour on the Perforce
> download site.  [...] Intel Pentium

Looking at the Linux x86 flavours listed on the Perforce download page,
you see (in the second column) that the basic difference between them
is the (g)libc version.

There are various ways to find out what version of libc you have.  You
can ask your package manager (something like rpm -q glibc); you can look
at /lib/libc*; indeed glibc is a little bit magical and you can even run
it -- eg on my machine (which isn't running Mandrake 8.1 :-))

$ /lib/libc.so.6 
GNU C Library stable release version 2.2.4, by Roland McGrath et al.

With Mandrake 8.1, you most likely have some glibc 2.2.x, but you should
check.

    John