[linux-help] Re: Updating glibc on RedHat 7

[Lars von dem Ast <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Vian wrote:

> I am trying to install the update for glibc 2.2 on RH7. (the distributed
> glibc is 2.1)
>
> It is giving me dependency errors and I can't seem to get past them.
>
>     to upgrade glibc I use the command
>             rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
>         the response is
>             error: Failed dependencies
>                 glibc-common = 2.2 is required by glibc-2.2-12
>
>     then I try to do the glibc-common first (It is not installed with glibc
> 2.1)
>             rpm -i glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
>         the response is
>             error: Failed dependencies
>                  glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12
>
>     I thought about uninstalling glibc and then installing the newer
> version, but it gives a list of 40+ packages that are dependent on glibc and
> will not uninstall.
>
> Does anyone have a fix for this, or suggestions on how to do the upgrade for
> glibc and the supporting packages???
>
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I'm curious, are you updating simply because they're on the RH update Web page,
or because you need to? I ran into the same problem and decided to just wait
for an issue to crop up that forced me to update....

L



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