first RHEL 5.5 is a few years out of date
the current in the OLD legacy hardware/software Operating system id RHEL 5.11
if you are not using 10+year old hardware or NEED to run 10+year old code
i would NOT use rhel5
instead use the Current RHEL 7.1
and BUY it
yes you HAVE !!! TO BUY THE REQUIRED SUPPORT CONTRACT
a standard 1 year single server license is $799 per year
or
install the FREE rebuild of the rhel code
CentOS
now cent ONLY supports the current minor versions
CentOS 5.11
CentOS 6.6 ( 6.7 soon)
CentOS 7.0 ( 7.1 soon)
as to glibc
it is already installed
Code:
su -
yum install glibc
will return nothing to do , already installed