Hi. Basic question: I would like to use the Intel Fortran Compiler 8.1 for Linux in Knoppix 3.8.2. Has anyone done this or know that it will work?

(Although from my user name being XPUser1 you could rightfully guess that I am a Windows-XP user, someone recently installed Linux from a Knoppix compact disc for me in a dual-boot arrangement on the Windows-XP-loaded computer.)

Of course I could just try it to find out the answer. In fact I am downloading the 86-megabyte Compiler installation file right now. But with good answers to some preliminary questions I hope one could see if some basic things look good. And it would be helpful to know if it is supposed to work or not. The software requirements for the Compiler used to be found at http://www.intel.com/software/produc...in/sysreq.htm; however, since then I think they have been replaced by the software requirements for version 9.0 of the Compiler, a version I guess to be similar to version 8.1. For version 9.0 of the Compiler glibc is a requirement. I saw that "Knoppix 3.4 comes with glibc" from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...05/05/2/255494. But for my Knoppix 3.8.2 all I could see of glibc all by itself via Knoppix's "K, System, Kpackage" was the directory /doc/glibc... I didn't find a glibc directory of source code. But I did find directories like /libs/libglib2.0-0 which is called the "The Glib library of C routines," perhaps all capitalized, and /devel/libglib1.2-dev. Are these things that have taken over the function of glibc with glibc itself being absent in Knoppix 3.8.2? (Or have I missed a directory or subdirectory called glibc itself in Knoppix 3.8.2?) If these things have taken the place of glibc, will they work with the Intel Fortran Compiler 8.1 or 9.0 for Linux? Similar things apply to glib, which was listed as a requirement for version 8.1 of the Compiler; yet I don't find a glib directory in my Knoppix 3.8.2 either. That is is there something else which will provide the adequate function of glib for version 8.1 of the Compiler? If the answers to all of these questions are good concerning version 8.1 of the Compiler, then even though RedHat and SuSE versions of Linux were listed as working with version 8.1 of the Compiler, while Knoppix was not, there would appear to me to be a fair chance that version 8.1 of the Compiler would work with Knoppix 3.8.2, which I have. If someone wants to tell me otherwise with supporting evidence, I welcome that.