rpm dependency problem

[James Leddy]

How am I to upgrade glibc if almost all the applications depend on the old
version of glibc? Even glibc-devel is needed by it. I don't want to
--nodeps the package, but I can see no other alternative.

Can someone help me with this?

thanks

[Lenard]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 02:48:35 -0400, James Leddy typed:

> How am I to upgrade glibc if almost all the applications depend on the
> old version of glibc? Even glibc-devel is needed by it. I don't want
> to --nodeps the package, but I can see no other alternative.
>
> Can someone help me with this?
>
> thanks

First and most important make sure that you upgrade the correct version of
the glibc RPM package if your using Red Hat Linux. If your running a i686
or equivalent system then make sure you update the i686 RPM version of
glibc.

$ rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{ARCH}\n' glibc

Assuming you have the glibc packages needed for the upgrade located in one
common place, then upgrade them all at the same time;

# rpm -Fvh glibc*rpm

(Note: $ - is a user and # - is root)


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[William Hooper]

"James Leddy" <jleddy1@binghamton.edu> wrote in message
news:3f6560c2_1@bingnews.binghamton.edu...

> How am I to upgrade glibc if almost all the applications depend on the old
> version of glibc?

Don't. You can upgrade to errata releases because they are the same version
with back-ported fixes.

> Even glibc-devel is needed by it. I don't want to
> --nodeps the package, but I can see no other alternative.

Upgrade to the distro version that includes the glibc you want. It will
probably included whatever program you are trying to install the requires
the new glibc anyway.

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William Hooper

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