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Hi,
I have a SuSE Enterprise 8 Server set up on an i586 platform. I had downloaded the rpms for GLIBC-2.3.2-6 from rpmfind and used YaST2 to install it. However, when I run rpm -qa | grep glibc , (I assume this is the correct command. I am learning the linux system and am not an expert by any means) to find the current version of glibc it returns the following:
glibc-i18ndata-2.2.5-163
glibc-2.2.5-164
glibc-locale-2.2.5-163
Although it appears that the new version of glibc installs OK (I don't receive an error, no dependancy issues), it apparently doesn't work right. Hence I cannot install other packages due to the version of glibc that is on my system.
The package i had downloaded from rpmfind was for SuSE Linux 8.2 for i386 (glibc-2.3.2-6.i586.rpm). The distro i am using (SuSE Linux enterprise server 8) is a fully functional evaluation version i got from Novell. However, there are no updates available from Suse or Novell for this. I am assuming that the file I got from rpmfind is appropriate.
Anyway, I ran the command you suggested and got the following error:
SUSE1:~ # rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-6.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc = 2.2.5 is needed by lsb-runtime-1.2-37
glibc = 2.2.5 is needed by glibc-locale-2.2.5-163
I am going to see if these are someting I can upgrade also, then try again. Anything else I should be looking at?
I was thinking the same thing. Is there anyway to determine the version other than from the lable on the install media?
I just set up another system (lucky we just took a bunch of machines out of service. They now become my personal lab ). I installed Fedora Core 2 and am able to do some of the installs that I want on that box. Still struggling with some dependency issues regarding upgrading samba from v3.0.3 v3.0.7, but its not imperative, and it gives me a problem to try to solve.
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updating GLIBC on SuSE Server 8.0
). I installed Fedora Core 2 and am able to do some of the installs that I want on that box. Still struggling with some dependency issues regarding upgrading samba from v3.0.3 v3.0.7, but its not imperative, and it gives me a problem to try to solve.
