Hi,

I have glibc_2.3 installed on CentOS4 machine..how do I upgrade it to 2.4??

I have downloaded the glibc_2.4 rpm package and tried installing it using YUM..but getting the following error..

Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/ad...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: addons
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from addons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

and doing this rpm -qa | grep glibc

I am getting the output

glibc-common-2.3.4-2
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2
glibc-2.3.4-2
glibc-headers-2.3.4-2

how do I upgrade the glibc version to 2.4???
Please help me out asap!!

Well, I am not sure if yum can install an RPM not accessible from the mirrors of its list.. Maybe ‘‘rpm -ivh glibc*.rpm’’ would work. Or probably you will need -Uvh flags. Maybe you should read yum manual to find how to add some mirrors, and install glibc from there (so when it will turn out that some older programs conflict with new glibc, you will have the opportunity to upgrade everything.

I also tried this..

rpm -ivh glibc-64bit-2.4-31.43.4.ppc.rpm
warning: glibc-64bit-2.4-31.43.4.ppc.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9c800aca
error: can't create transaction lock


bt got the error..

Were you doing it as root?

You do realize that the rpm you are trying to install is for ppc (mac)?

Yum will install local rpms. See "man yum" under "localinstall".

Well the rpm command is
given that the package is in the directory where you run that command (otherwise provide full path to the rpm file). The uppercase U should upgrade the package (or install if it isn't installed, if I'm not mistaken). Yum is for installing packages from reposities, if you do it locally, use rpm instead. If you have several files, you can use wildcards to install them all. Or to install graphically, just double-click on the rpm file and you should be prompted for a password, after which the package is installed if possible.

Upgrading glibc isn't like upgrading Totem, it's more ground-level thing - not sure how rpm handles it, but if the procedure isn't straightforward, it should warn you

EDIT: oh and do get the correct version of that package first. There are a lot of operating systems/distributions that use rpm package management, and they are not necessarily "compatible" with each other - so even if the package did install, it doesn't mean it would work without problems, or at all, depending on how much the OS differs from your OS that the package was meant for. So when downloading rpm packages manually, make sure they are meant for CentOS - and the exact version you're using, if possible, to avoid problems. Different distribution version packages should install, but it's not guaranteed they work without problems.