Changeset 59088 in vbox

Timestamp:

Dec 11, 2015 1:24:04 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

doc/manual: mention that the .run packages are built on EL5

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Installation.xml (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Installation.xml

@@ -466 +466 @@
       various common Linux distributions (see <xref linkend="hostossupport" />
       for details). In addition, there is an alternative generic installer
-      (.run) which should work on most Linux distributions.</para>
+      (.run) which should work on most Linux distributions. The generic
+      installer packages are built on EL5 systems and thus require reasonable
+      old versions of glibc (version 2.5) and other system libraries.</para>
 
       <sect3>