I am a newbie to Linux (though with long Windows/Mac experience).
I would like to install Avast for Linux; the requirements stipulate GLIBC and pthread. When I check in Synaptic Manager, GLIBC shows no hits, while pthread only has pthread-stubs0 and pthread-stubs0-dev available for install. If I do locate glibc in terminal, I get /usr/share/man/man7/glibc.7.gz. Would I have the man pages for glibc if it were not installed? If it were installed, shouldn’t locate locate it? I’m not sure if I fulfill the requirements or not.
If I need to install anything prior to installing Avast, would someone kindly provide instructions on where to go and what to do? Are there any ‘gotchas’ that I need to watch out for, or will right-clicking/install with Ubuntu Update Center on the .deb package suffice?
Hallo,
glibc is the main userspace library of the whole system and is in some, usually very backward-compatible form (as we all always hope:) already present on your system. Threading library is in turn part of the glibc suite :).