Question:
When I run an older version of SlickEdit® on Red Hat® 9.0 or Mandrake 9.1, I get a segmentation fault.

Answer:
SlickEdit is built with GLIBC version 2.2 while many of the newer Linux distributions such as Mandrake 9.1 and Red Hat 9 were built with GLIBC 2.3.   A binary incompatibility, associated with symbol versioning, causes statically built executables to segfault on these newer systems.

Visual SlickEdit® v8.0:

  The latest 8.0 patch from our patches page corrects this problem.

Visual SlickEdit v7.0 (and earlier):

Assuming that the Visual SlickEdit installation directory is /usr/lib/vslick/, copy over a 2.2.5 GLIBC shared library (/lib/libc.so.6) to the /usr/lib/vslick/ directory. To quickly get the old libc.so.6, download it from a mirror site. For example, for Mandrake 9.1:

  ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/libc.so.6

To run the vs executable:

Create a vs executable shell script that everybody can execute (in other words, make the shell script available in the PATH). For example:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vslick /usr/lib/vslick/bin/vs "-#SET
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=" $*
# end of script

To run the vsdiff executable:

1. Download a replacement vsdiff utility to the /usr/lib/vslick/bin/ directory from the following location, and gunzip it after download.

   http://www.slickedit.com/download/updates/80/unix/linux/x86-glibc-2.3/vsdiff.gz

2. Create a vsdiff executable shell script that everybody can execute. For example:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vslick /usr/lib/vslick/bin/vsdiff $*
# end of script

To use the integrated FTP client:

Download a replacement vsproxy utility to the /usr/lib/vslick/bin/ directory and gunzip it. For example:

   gunzip vsproxy.gz

Download the program from:

   http://www.slickedit.com/download/updates/80/unix/linux/x86-glibc-2.3/vsproxy.gz

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