How to run statically linked programs on a shell account?

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Published on 2012-09-16T09:14:41Z Indexed on 2012/09/16 9:39 UTC
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I have a shell account where I am not allowed to compile anything. There are however tools I need to run, some very simple ones like Midnight Commander, mcedit, most, jed I am trying to find a staically linked version that "just works" in my shell.

Could anyone give me any advice on where I could find statically builds? I have not been able to find it with google.

I could compile it myself, but I would have to find out which headers I need to compile for. I have never tried to do it before, so any help would be greatly apprechiated!

My host uses CloudLinux, output of uname -a: Linux hostname.domain.com 2.6.18-408.el5.lve0.8.61.1 #1 SMP Wed Apr 18 07:47:15 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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