Update Glibc library

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5. Complain to the blender people. If they tell you: we don't give a ****, we don't support RHEL/CentOS, we support X -- then you install X.

[Mike_Rochefort]

5. Complain to the blender people. If they tell you: we don't give a ****, we don't support RHEL/CentOS, we support X -- then you install X.

If all you care about is Blender, then yes this is really the appropriate action. The Blender team has already made statements that they don’t cater towards the RHEL crowd. However, Blender is one of the very few, if not the only, “major” application in our industry with support for Linux that does not build and test on RHEL. Some of the other applications have platform agnostic installers and bundle most necessary libraries with the app, but really only truly support RHEL/CentOS users. So you start to run into some serious conflicts of interests past this one app.

There are only two relatively easy ways to get Blender 2.8 running on CentOS 7 (the ultimate goal of this thread), and that’s through containers or building from source.

Cheers,
Mike