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Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

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Hi,

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> just for the record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the
> program and got it working on his Ubuntu system, and created a
> binary for me.  The problem now is to get the binary to work on my
> Wheezy or Jessie system.

It's not really reasonable to expect a binary built on a completely
different Linux distribution to run unchanged on your own machines.
I mean, it can be achieved, with some care, but is not the normal
way to do this.

You would be better off having your build and production
environments being the same. Ideally that could be achieved by both
your developer and you building/running the binary from a chroot of
the same thing, e.g. whatever version of Ubuntu the developer is
using. If the developer can't build this in a chroot then you could
just run it in a chroot that matches what the developer is building
it in.

If your developer hopes to be building software for use by multiple
people on Debian and Ubuntu, they would be well advised to look into
how to build proper Debian packages, using pbuilder or cowbuilder or
whatever, so they can distribute deb files for stable, oldstable
etc. without any of these concerns.

Or, your developer should deliver only portable source to you, and
you compile that yourself.

Cheers,
Andy

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Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-06 17:20 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2018-12-06 18:50 +0100
    Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 02:00 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-06 19:00 +0100
    Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 02:10 +0100
      Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 04:20 +0100
        Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 04:40 +0100
          Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 04:50 +0100
            OT(?) question {Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-07 12:10 +0100
            Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 19:50 +0100
              Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 20:40 +0100
                Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-08 01:00 +0100
                Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-08 02:30 +0100
              Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-12-07 20:40 +0100
          Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-12-07 08:20 +0100
            Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 13:10 +0100
          Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it  up? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-07 11:10 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-06 22:10 +0100
    Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 00:30 +0100
      Re: Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 09:10 +0100

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