Working with old servers

So I thought the simple installation of HandBrake would go smoothly on a Linux server I was working on. All I needed to do was download the pre-compiled binary and it would work since it was compiled for Intel and the server was a quad core Intel right? Not so, since the server was running an old version of Red Hate Enterprise Server, version 4 to be exact, there were library issues all over the place. Simply put, there was no way to get HandBrake on there unless I was compiling it from source.

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