Hi all, i have a small question about rpm. I am trying to install a newer version of glibc on a linux box but it gives dependency errors. Can i install the newer version of glibc using
rpm -Uvh --nodeps packagename. Will there be any problem by doing this.
Can any one please tell me about this.

Thanks, bye

you "can" install it, but the reason rpm gave you errors, is that it WILL break things.

Glibc is a dependency for a lot of packages on your system. Don't forcefully upgrade it because you will nd up with a broken system. The best way to upgrade it is through a package manager like APT/SYNAPTIC or YUM.

Hi, thanks for your replies, I actually needed the new version of glibc as i had to upgrade to openssh 4.0 so i downloaded openssh-4.0p1-2.i386.rpm. I installed the glibc with nodependency check and it worked fine. I then used yum to upgrade to openssh 4.0 but it gave me the following errors

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Linux / stable for Red Hat Linux 3AS (i386)
retrygrab() failed for:
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/red...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://download.fedora.us/fedora/red...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

i guess the link is not working. So itried no upgrade it using rpm with depency check and it gave me the following errors

warning: openssh-4.0p1-2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.5 is needed by openssh-4.0p1-2
libkrb5support.so.0 is needed by openssh-4.0p1-2
libselinux >= 1.17.9 is needed by openssh-4.0p1-2
libselinux.so.1 is needed by openssh-4.0p1-2
i think we need libcrypto shared libraries, where can i get them and how to install them.

Could you please tell me about this,
thanks and bye