RPM Dependency

Alexander Apprich a.apprich at science-computing.de
Thu Jun 9 06:29:32 UTC 2005


Hi Frank,

Frank Chen wrote:
> On FC3, I checked the firefox dependency as following.
> 
> rpm -qR firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.20
> 
> The result contains the following lines.
> 
> libc.so.6
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)
> 
> Are these different versions of the same library? Do I
> need them all or any one version will work?
> 

AFAIK, you need only one of those. The different GLIBC_2.x means
that the function(s) used are available in 2.0/2.1/.../2.3.4

Hth

Alex




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