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Unable to install Mono 2.6 on CentOS

I have an application that breaks on mono 2.10, so I'm trying to install an older mono instead. I found an RPM and tried to install it, but it won't install (I believe) because the glibc and gcc ...
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How to install older version of glibc?

I'm trying to install gcc-4.4 on RHEL6: sudo rpm -ivh /mnt/dvd/Packages/gcc-4.4.3-1.el6.x86_64.rpm. But the problem is that is depends on glibc and glibc-common libraries. When I try to install them ...
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Compiling a C program that defines a function getline by GCC

I'm trying to compile by GCC an old C program that defines and uses a function named getline, which conflicts with the function of the same name in the GNU C library. How can you compile it? Passing ...
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How/why can Firefox packages work on all Linuxes?

How/why can a Firefox 64bit (or 32bit) package work on different Linux distributions since each Linux distribution has a different version for gcc, glibc, linux kernel, etc. ?