[SAC-HELP] Installation of SAC 101.5; operating system issues

[Fiona Darbyshire]

Hello,

Today I obtained and installed SAC 101.5 for a Linux 64-bit system.
(I've successfully installed previous versions on this machine). When
I tried to run the program, I received the following error message:

sac: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by sac)
sac: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by sac)

Not being any expert on OS libraries, I asked the system administrator
for advice. He told me that my machine has operating system CentOS 5.7
which has the version GLIBC 2.5 and one cannot install a more recent
version by the distribution update system (apologies if this is clumsy
wording; I'm translating directly from French...). CentOS 6 uses GLIBC
2.12 but my machine is 5 years old...

So my question is: is there a way to do a successful install of the
sac 101.5 binaries without having to upgrade my entire operating
system? I'd imagine there's a simple solution out there somewhere, but
I'm not sufficiently computer-savvy to figure it out myself! The
adminstrator wondered if there's a version with all libraries included
that was therefore independent of the OS libraries.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Fiona Darbyshire
Université du Québec à Montréal