glibc upgrade question
 

Quick question for the Brain Trust:

I'm trying to install GNUCash, and to do this I need to install some other packages. Long story short, I need to upgrade my glibc packages.

So I'm trying to do this, but to upgrade glibc, I get a dependency error -- it needs the glibc-common package to be upgraded. When I try to upgrade the glibc-common package, it fails, requesting that glibc be upgraded. (kind of like a chicken / egg thing)

I'd appreciate any assistance anyone can offer.

Greg

[root RedHat ~]# rpm -i --test glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
[root RedHat ~]# rpm -i --test glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12

I'm trying to do the same thing, and so this is what you must do..

install gnucash rpm using the following options to rpm command

rpm -i --nodeps

this should install it without any deps problem

otherwise consult the manual with

man rpm

this should shed some light

additional gnucash help
 

Thanks for the help!

For anyone else out there looking for the rpms for GNUCash, these links may help:

http://www.gnumatic.com/pipermail/gn...ay/003561.html

ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/plain-GNOME/

Thanks again!