Hi,

I'm running Fedora 8, where the currently installed version of glib2
is glib2-2.14.2-1.fc8.i386. For a piece of software that I'm
compiling, I need glib2 >= 2.15. Since an updated glib2 is not
available for Fedora 8, I downloaded glib2-2.16.3-5.fc9.src.rpm for
Fedora 9 and rebuilt it, which resulted in the following rpms:
glib2-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm
glib2-debuginfo-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm
glib2-devel-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm
glib2-static-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm

Now how do I go about installing these?
1) I tried yum in this directory:
> sudo yum localinstall glib2-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm

Setting up Local Package Process
Examining glib2-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm: glib2 - 2.16.3-5.fc8.i386
Marking glib2-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm as an update to glib2 -
2.14.2-1.fc8.i386
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glib2.i386 0:2.16.3-5.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glib2 = 2.14.2-1.fc8 for package: glib2-
devel
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: glib2 = 2.14.2-1.fc8 is needed by package
glib2-devel

2) I tried installing manually using rpm, but it complains of files
from this rpm conflicting with the already installed 2.14 glib2
version.

3) I tried removing glib2-2.14, but there are a ton of programs
already using it, as expected.

How can I then go about updating glib2? I could use the source I got
from rebuilding the SRPM and install from source. What is the standard
way of doing this?

Thanks,
MK

I'm afraid that the standard way of doing this is to move to F11 or F12 as F8 was obsoleted. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle.

So it is, but that shouldn't make it impossible to upgrade from one version of glib to another. Yum seems to do it fine if there is another version available on any repo. There isn't, and I have to do it manually, so there has to be a way..

Okay so here's the solution from some nice guy on comp.os.linux.development on Usenet:

"Remove the old glib2-devel or install the new glib2 and its version of
glib2-devel in one command."

The following worked:

sudo yum localinstall glib2-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm glib2-devel-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm glib2-static-2.16.3-5.fc8.i386.rpm
(all these packages were generated when I rebuilt the SRPM)


-MK

WHY go to that trouble to update ONLY one program on an unsupported OS like fedora 8 ??

I would just install fedora 12 and in 6 months fedora 13 then 6 months later fedora 14


or GET OFF the fedora roller-coaster and install a LONG LIFE distro like RHEL or CentOS .