How can I install an old version of libc on 12.04 and is it safe to do so?

Posted by mathematician1975 on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by mathematician1975
Published on 2012-07-09T15:19:30Z Indexed on 2012/07/09 15:24 UTC
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I am building an application on 12.04 and I need to run it on an embedded device. The device has libc-2.8.90.so on it and my dev machine has libc-2.15.so on it. I would like to install libc-2.8.90 onto my dev machine and attempt to link it to my application. I have searched at the Ubuntu software centre for libc-2.8.90 but I cannot find anything resembling it. Is there a way to install this on my machine from command line?? Also will my system be safe having 2 installed versions of libc at the same time? Can it lead to any instability?

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