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I need to upgrade the glibc library (currently
glibc-2.0.7-13) in order to install both KDE and GNOME.
I already tried it once, and the system CRASHED
miserably =(... I couldn't even start the system with the emergency boot option
because the libc library wouldn't let init get passed!!! (is that a flaw in
init???)
Any way, I got all these files that apparently
contain an updated version and one of such files is glibc-2.1.2-15.i386.rpm (a
newer version that mine). If I try the upgrade, it says that it cannot procede
because of dependencies. So I go and remove the offending package and it say
that there are more dependencies. Again, I remove the second package and
succeed. Remove the first offending package and succeed again. Finally, try to
upgrade glibc and it says that there is a problem with the compression in the
package!?!?! That's when the system crashed.
If I try to upgrade the RPM package itself
first, it says that it needs glibc updated, and it seems to me, that the problem
comes from an outdated RPM.
Is there a sequence to upgrade the system
without having to reinstall again everything? I really don't want to do that,
because first of all, the files come in a CD-R and they seem to belong to a
distribution like turbolinux or something like that, and secondly (and more
important) this computer has got several pieces of hardware not supported
directly from the instalation, like a SCSI card, an IBM 9GB SCSI Hard Disk, an
LS-120 floppy, a 2x 8Megs AGP video card, a linmodem (yeap, I got one, and it
really works!!!), and other stuff that I really wouldn't like to configure
AGAIN!
I really appreciate any light on this, I cannot
ruin the system again, because it is configured as an IP-Masquerading server
with 7 machines around it.
Thanks.
Alfredo.
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