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  • +1 for the information, though the last line is important. The OP needs to decide if the amount of effort involved is worth it. Commented Feb 5, 2013 at 21:40
  • Thank you All! OK, I resign. I think I'd be better to stick with Mathematica 8 as a compromise. It works on Red Hat 4. Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 3:09
  • @livingstaccato Hi, But How do comment vonbrand's words:" Installing a new version in some strange place is riskier... The library at the strange place could be picked up by random stuff,....". Is it really riskier? Had you ever tried the way which is described in your answer? Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 3:16
  • @user15964 It's not risky unless you're not paying attention to what you're doing as root or you do something weird like change your LD_PRELOAD in your session init script and lock yourself out. Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 8:52
  • @user15964 Also - yes - I have rebuilt glibc way, way, back in the day. Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 9:16