I have downloaded some proprietary software that I want to install onto a
64-bit Debian machine. The software is written for 64-bit linux, but the
kernel version reported, for example, by uname (and perhaps by some system
call that the compiled software uses) is not in a format that the software
expects.
---BEGIN QUOTE FROM VENDOR---
Its not that
3.12-1-amd64
isn't supported per se. But when [the software], or the makefiles, parse
the string
3.12-1-amd64
they don't get the expected result. If the uname -r were the string
3.12.9-1
then parsing it would yield the expected result.
---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR---
Is the reported kernel-version string, "3.12-1-amd64", something that I
could change by compiling a custom kernel?
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Thomas E. Vaughan
